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| NCALM Invites Seed Project Proposals from Graduate Students The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping invites proposals from graduate students seeking airborne lidar data covering limited areas (no more than 40 km2) for use in research toward… |
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| McMurdo Dry Valleys Lidar Data Now Available OpenTopography has released lidar point cloud and DEM data covering over 2,700 km2 of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. The data was collected by NCALM in 2014–2015 and includes Taylor… |
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| Buried Shallow Fault Slip from the South Napa Earthquake Revealed A new USGS-led study suggests that earthquake-related deformation just below the Earth's surface can be quite different from how it is expressed at the surface. The study was completed… |
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| NCALM Announces 2016 Seed Proposal Winners The winners of the annual Seed Proposal program have been selected. Eight students will have their projects mapped by NCALM in the coming months. Congratulations to this year's winners!… |
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| Twelve New NCALM Datasets Available Through OpenTopography OpenTopography has released a dozen new datasets collected by NCALM. Among the data are eight student seed grant projects and two Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) projects. See the news… |
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| Request for NCALM Seed Proposals from Graduate Students The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, funded by the National Science Foundation, invites proposals from graduate students seeking Airborne Laser Swath Mapping observations… |
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| OpenTopography Releases New NCALM Dataset from New Zealand OpenTopography has released a dataset from the South Island of New Zealand. The data are part of the Marlborough Fault System and were collected by NCALM in March, 2014. Access to the data… |
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| Ph.D. Student Opportunities in Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences The Geosensing Systems Engineering & Sciences (GSES) Graduate Program in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston, in conjunction with the… |
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| GSES Ph.D. Student Defends Dissertation Zhigang Pan defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Shallow Water Bathymetry Using Full Waveform Bathymetric LiDAR and Hyperspectral Imagery." High-resolution airborne hyperspectral imagery and… |
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| 2014 Titan Point Clouds Now Available Seven new NCALM lidar datasets are now available on OpenTopograpy. These point clouds were among the first collected by the Optech Titan in 2014. The datasets, which were CZO and SEED… |
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