OpenTopography is at the @SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (#2024NDiSTEM) conference in Phoenix, AZ this week. Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall (shared with @AGeSGeochron) to say hi đź‘‹, ask questions, and learn about available resources related to #lidar and topography.
ALT OpenTopography exhibit hall booth at the SACNAS NDiSTEM conference.
Our group at the #SCECmeet:
@TTremblingEarth, @ch_gruetze, Cholponbek, Magali, @ramonarrowsmith, Gulkaiyr, Erkhin, Sultan, & @aimassemsk.
We really enjoyed the meeting so far and tomorrow we'll head off to N Nevada to see some faults!
Now it's time for a last joint project meeting. @ramonarrowsmith from @ASU Tempe set up a great program for researchers from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Canada, and Germany.
Call for #AGU24 abstracts! Are you developing innovative new methods to produce, analyze, & interpret high-resolution topographic change data? Consider submitting an abstract to our interdisciplinary methods session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pre…#lidar#topography
ALT White Sands, NM map of topographic change from two airborne lidar datasets.
If you use data from OpenTopography in a publication, you should include a dataset citation. We provide pre-generated language you can copy & paste into your references. This new video shows how:
youtu.be/kVpuGnDcZ3E?feature…
OT citation policy for more info: opentopography.org/citations
Today is the 5 year anniversary of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes (July 4th & 5th). There are several #lidar and photogrammetric (space-based and UAS) datasets available from OpenTopography covering the area impacted by this event: portal.opentopography.org/da…
Updated release of M6.4 & M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence #lidar. Release adds data over Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and now includes the main surface fault ruptures. Data collected by @NCALM_UH, funded by @USGS & @NSF.
Pair of new @NCALM_UH seed #lidar datasets in Alaska, USA are now available on OpenTopography:
- Monitoring the Mass Balance of Eklutna Glacier, AK 2023
- Detecting Changes in Hillslope Geomorphology Due to Thawing Permafrost, interior AK 2023
More info: opentopography.org/news/two-…
ALT Hillshade of a portion of the Eklutna Glacier.
ALT 3D point cloud colored by intensity of the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
Recent publication by @neotectonic et al., investigates earthquake hazards in the Greater Caucasus Mountains of Azerbaijan using satellite imagery-derived topography & paleoseismic trenching. Topographic data are available on OpenTopography at: doi.org/10.5069/G9RJ4GPJ#opendata
ALT Point cloud colored by elevation over Agsu, Azerbaijan
ALT 1m digital surface model hillshade over Agsu, Azerbaijan colored by elevation.
Paleoseismologists dug two trenches along the Greater Caucasus mountains to learn more about past—and potential future—earthquakes.
eos.org/research-spotlights/…
Read more in the June issue of Eos: bit.ly/Eos-Jun2024
We've added an enhancement for topographic differencing results that allows users to visually compare the change between two overlapping datasets w/ a slider. 📷: Quarry near Washington, Indiana comparing 2013 & 2018 #lidar datasets. Info & more examples: opentopography.org/news/slid…
ALT Slider image showing change at a quarry near Washington, Indiana between 2013 and 2018.
Another round of #lidar point cloud data for the north island of New Zealand 🇳🇿 added to OpenTopography. ~5000 sq km of new @LINZLDS data over Hamilton, Waikato & Gisborne: opentopography.org/news/gisb…
ALT 3D point cloud colored by aerial imagery RGB values of the Hamilton, New Zealand airport (HLZ).
ALT Spatial coverage of new LINZ datasets highlighted in red.
ALT Difference map between the ground surface in Gisborne, New Zealand 2023 and Gisborne, New Zealand 2018-2020 near the Fernside Fault. Differences range from -1 m (dark red ) to 1m (dark blue). Note the large landslide / mass movement events in the upper part of the image.