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OpenTopography dataset information page

Short Description

LIDAR DEM Hillshade - UC Berkeley Campus.

Statement: Community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.

Abstract: The mission of the OpenTopography Facility is to:

– Democratize online access to high-resolution (meter to sub-meter scale), Earth science-oriented, topography data acquired with LiDAR and other technologies. - Harness cutting edge cyberinfrastructure to provide Web service-based data access, processing, and analysis capabilities that are scalable, extensible, and innovative. - Promote discovery of data and software tools through community populated metadata catalogs. - Partner with public domain data holders to leverage OpenTopography infrastructure for data discovery, hosting and processing. - Provide professional training and expert guidance in data management, processing, and analysis. - Foster interaction and knowledge exchange in the Earth science LiDAR user community.

The OpenTopography Facility is based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and is operated in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Core operational support for OpenTopography comes from the National Science Foundation Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program (EAR/IF) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. In addition, we receive funding from the NSF and NASA to support various OpenTopography related research and development activities. OpenTopography was initially developed as a proof of concept cyberinfrastructure in the Earth sciences project as part of the NSF Information and Technology Research (ITR) program-funded Geoscience Network (GEON) project.

Data format

Data type:	Topography
Data origin:	Modeled
Data format:	ArcExport, Shapefile, Binary, ASCII
Other format:
Data resolution:	variable but high
Datum:

Data Coverage

Spatial data coverage: United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the island territories.
Temporal data coverage: Time snap shot
Time period covered:

Availability

Download data: http://www.opentopography.org/index.php
Data source: http://www.opentopography.org/index.php

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 {{Data description
-|One-line data description=A Portal to Hig-Resolution Topography Data and Tools
+|One-line data description=Community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
-|Extended data description=The OpenTopography Portal is a collaboration between computer scientists at San Diego Supercomputer Center and earth scientists at Arizona State University.
+|Extended data description=The mission of the OpenTopography Facility is to:
-The OpenTopography Portal is a GEON Project initiative to build an online system that provides integrated access to high-resolution topographic data, web-based processing tools, and enables the user community to share knowledge, experiences and resources.  The OpenTopography Portal incorporates the GEON LiDAR Workflow (GLW) system for LiDAR point cloud access and processing and adds mechanisms for access to other data types.  The goal of OpenTopography is to provide a portal where access to various public domain airborne and terrestrial LiDAR, bathymetry, and other topographic data can be centralized.
+– Democratize online access to high-resolution (meter to sub-meter scale), Earth science-oriented, topography data acquired with LiDAR and other technologies.
+- Harness cutting edge cyberinfrastructure to provide Web service-based data access, processing, and analysis capabilities that are scalable, extensible, and innovative.
+- Promote discovery of data and software tools through community populated metadata catalogs.
+- Partner with public domain data holders to leverage OpenTopography infrastructure for data discovery, hosting and processing.
+- Provide professional training and expert guidance in data management, processing, and analysis.
+- Foster interaction and knowledge exchange in the Earth science LiDAR user community.
+The OpenTopography Facility is based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and is operated in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.  Core operational support for OpenTopography comes from the National Science Foundation Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program (EAR/IF) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.  In addition, we receive funding from the NSF and NASA to support various OpenTopography related research and development activities.  OpenTopography was initially developed as a proof of concept cyberinfrastructure in the Earth sciences project as part of the NSF Information and Technology Research (ITR) program-funded Geoscience Network (GEON) project.
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-|Caption dataset image=LIDAR map example
+|Caption dataset image=LIDAR DEM Hillshade - UC Berkeley Campus.
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