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Six New NCALM Datasets Released from California, Idaho, Washington, and Mexico

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of six new datasets covering areas of California, Idaho, Washington, and Mexico. Four of the six datasets were collected as part of NCALM's…
Hillshade of Goat Rocks, WA
NCALM Invites Seed Proposals for Graduate Student Research

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping invites proposals from graduate students seeking airborne lidar data (up to 40 sq km) for use in research toward an M.S. or Ph.D. degree. See…
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
Small Projects Mapped through Community Resource Pooling

Eight and a half weeks out of the country was one of NCALM's longest campaigns. The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping field team mapped seven small archaeological projects for the…
Flying over Metzabok, Mexico.
Kern River Canyon Lidar Dataset Now Available

A 250 square kilometer dataset from the Kern River Canyon is now available on OpenTopography. The area of interest was the Kern River between Bakersfield and Isabella Lake in California.…
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Geosensing Systems Engineering Seeks Instructional Faculty

Geosensing Systems Engineering Instructional Faculty Positions The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Houston invites applications for part-time…
Civil and Environmental Engineering at UH
Field Update for 2019 Mexico and Central America Lidar Collection Campaign

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping completed four projects in Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico, for several PIs. After small delays upon entering the country, NCALM was able to map…
2019 Mexico and Central America Lidar Collection Campaign
Seed Project Data from Guadalupe Mountains Released

A new NCALM dataset has been released by OpenTopography. The dataset, covering 63 km2 over McKittrick Canyon in West Texas and Southern New Mexico, was collected for a 2017 Seed Proposal…
Airborne Mapping in Texas and New Mexico
Zhiyue Sun Defends Ph.D. Dissertation

Doctoral student Zhiyue Sun successfully defended his dissertation titled, "Estimating Glacier Ice Thickness and Mass Balance using Multiple Spaceborne Geodetic Techniques." Numerous…
Zhiyue Sun Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Chaco Canyon Lidar Dataset Released

Over 500 km2 of lidar data at Chaco Culture National Historical Park and the surrounding area are now available on OpenTopography. The project was mapped by NCALM in 2016 as part of an NSF…
Pueblo Bonito Aerial Imagery
New Lidar Dataset Covering Portion of San Andreas Fault Available

OpenTopography has released a new publicly-available NCALM lidar dataset covering 28 km2 of the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California. The data were part of the Seed Proposal program…
New Lidar Dataset Covering Portion of San Andreas Fault Available