OpenTopography featured in "Lidar Magazine"
Jan 5, 2023
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NOAA Coastal Lidar Data Now Available to Academic Users Through OpenTopography
Dec 8, 2022
We're pleased to announce that NOAA's Coastal Lidar Data holdings are now available to academic users of OpenTopography. This new functionality enables access to over 800 new datasets, covering almost 1.4 million km2 (6.92 trillion points), with additional data to be added as they become available. The OpenTopography platform adds value to these NOAA data by improving access and providing processing capabilities for subsetting, gridding, visualization, and hydrologic terrain analysis.
OpenTopography at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Meeting
Dec 5, 2022
Connect with OpenTopography at the 2022 American Geophysical Union meeting in Chicago, IL! OpenTopography will be in booth #1318 in the "NSF Neighborhood" in the exhibit hall. Our booth is staffed by the OpenTopography team and is a great chance to ask questions, provide feedback, or to discuss lidar, high resolution topography, and cyberinfrastructure.
Stop by the booth to see the latest in OpenTopography:
New 30m Digital Terrain Model Covering Continental Europe Now Available
Dec 1, 2022
OpenTopography is pleased to provide access to a unique Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for Continental Europe. Dr Tom Hengl at the OpenGeoHub foundation and his colleagues developed an Ensemble Machine Learning (EML) algorithm to predict the bare-earth terrain using publicly available Digital Surface Models (e.g. MERITDEM, AW3D30, GLO-30, EU DEM, GLAD canopy height). The EML was trained using over 9 million GEDI and ICESat-2 ground elevations.
Spring 2023 OpenTopography Webinar Series
Nov 21, 2022
OpenTopography invites you to join us for a series of weekly hour-long webinars beginning in March 2023. During the webinars, we will teach the basics of lidar, demonstrate how to use OpenTopography's growing set of on-demand processing tools, and present available resources and educational materials. The majority of the webinars will be a combination of a lecture on background material and a hands-on demonstration where participants will have the opportunity to use OpenTopography's tools to process and visualize topography data.
OpenTopography collaboration with WIFIRE Lab expands community access to California lidar datasets
Oct 24, 2022
OpenTopography and the WIFIRE Lab at UC San Diego have started work on a new collaborative effort to streamline access to approximately 60 federally funded California high resolution lidar datasets in both point cloud and raster formats. These datasets were collected by agencies such as the US Forest Service and have not been previously accessible online.
USGS 3DEP lidar covering areas impacted by Hurricane Ian now available from OpenTopography
Sep 30, 2022
In response to Hurricane Ian, OpenTopography is temporarily removing our academic user restriction on access to USGS 3D Elevation Project (3DEP) lidar datasets for impacted areas in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. We hope that OpenTopography's easy to use interface for accessing, processing, and visualizing high resolution USGS 3DEP lidar datasets in these affected regions will help to support hurricane emergency response, recovery and rebuilding, assessment of environmental impacts, and research.
New NCALM dataset in Nevada now available
Sep 28, 2022
A new lidar dataset covering 53 km2 over the McLeod Springs Wash in Nevada is now available on OpenTopography. This lidar dataset was collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) as part of the Seed grant program for Michael Hasson at Stanford University. This dataset was collected to help analyze morphodynamics of an unvegetated meandering river.
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