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Mar 18, 2024
Updated October 29th, 2024
Access lidar via an OT+ subscription (for non-academic users).
This subscription provides access to lidar topography covering most of the US mainland, Hawaii, and territories as well as satellite data over the Arctic and Antarctic. This includes access to the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and NOAA Coastal Lidar.
OpenTopography is happy to announce a new subscription-based program (OT+) to enable access to our platform of user-friendly services applied to high resolution lidar topography data covering the vast majority of the US’s lower 48, Hawaii, and territories... more
Mar 6, 2024
Five new, and two updated Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These datasets collectively add over 18,000 km2 of high resolution topographic data over New Zealand (see areas in red on map below).
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Gisborne, New Zealand 2023
Selwyn, Canterbury, New Zealand 2023
Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand 2023
Waimakariri, Canterbury, New Zealand 2023
Abel Tasman and Golden Bay, Tasman,... more
Feb 16, 2024
Three new NCALM (National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping) datasets are now available from OpenTopography. Two of these datasets examine hydrologic processes that affect channel evolution and dynamics in the western US. These include a dataset along the central coast of California which was collected for Telemak Olsen at Western Washington University. This dataset was collected to help quantify channel change in response to a post-fire debris flow in a steep coastal stream in Big Sur, California. In addition, in August 2022, a dataset was collected over the Swan and Middle Fork Flathead... more
Jan 8, 2024
Three new Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These new datasets collectively add over 9,300 km2 of high resolution topographic data (see areas in red in figure below).
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Waikato, New Zealand 2021 (Addendum)
Canterbury, New Zealand 2020-2022 (Addendum)
Manawatu - Whanganui, New Zealand 2022-2023... more
Jan 3, 2024
OpenTopography is recruiting at least one Data Science intern this summer via the EarthScope Student Careers Internship Program. The intern(s) will work with the OpenTopography team to ingest and process data, and/or to develop workflows and services related to processing, analysis, and visualization of topographic data managed by OpenTopography (https://opentopography.org/). These include lidar, photogrammetry, and radar data in point cloud and raster formats. The intern will construct workflows, author documentation, and deploy the workflows as notebooks. In addition, the intern may work to... more
Dec 22, 2023
On account of the winter holiday break and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California, San Diego closure, OpenTopography will be operating with reduced support between December 23rd and January 2nd. OpenTopography systems will be fully available and users may run jobs as normal. However responses to emails, system outages, and bug reports may be delayed. If you have questions or concerns please email info@opentopography.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience and happy holidays from the OpenTopography Team!
Dec 4, 2023
Connect with OpenTopography at the 2023 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, CA! OpenTopography will be in booth #214 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:
On-demand vertical differencing of USGS 3DEP and NOAA lidar topography: This update makes it possible to use OpenTopography's tools to compute topographic change for more than 20%... more
Nov 16, 2023
Two new Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These datasets collectively add almost 4,800 km2 of high resolution topographic data over the Central Otago Region of the South Island (see areas in red in figure below).
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Central Otago, Otago, New Zealand 2022-2023
Central Otago, Otago, New Zealand... more
Nov 9, 2023
Over the past several months, OpenTopography has been working hard to add new datasets, and append more data to previously published projects over New Zealand. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. Collectively these new data add an additional 53,000 km2 of high resolution topographic data over both the North and South Islands (see areas in red in figure below).
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Southland, New... more
Oct 25, 2023
Access lidar via an OT+ subscription (for non-academic users).
This subscription provides access to lidar topography covering most of the US mainland, Hawaii, and territories as well as satellite data over the Arctic and Antarctic. This includes access to the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and NOAA Coastal Lidar.
OpenTopography has expanded our on-demand vertical differencing (a.k.a. topographic change detection) tools to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) coastal lidar collections. This update makes... more
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