1. OpenTopography 2: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Facility for High-Resolution Topographic Data and Tools PI: Chaitan Baru (SDSC) Co-PIs: J Ramon Arrowsmith (ASU) Christopher Crosby (UNAVCO) Viswanath Nandigam (SDSC) Democratize online access to high-resolution earth science- oriented, topography data acquired with LiDAR and other technologies. PI: Chaitan Baru (SDSC) Co-PIs: J Ramon Arrowsmith (ASU) Christopher Crosby (UNAVCO) Viswanath Nandigam (SDSC) Democratize online access to high-resolution earth science- oriented, topography data acquired with LiDAR and other technologies.

2. How do we deliver these large community datasets to users? Large user community with variable needs and levels of sophistication. Goal: maximize access to data to achieve greatest scientific impact. Big data – treat data as an asset that can be used and reused Current OpenTopography Holdings OT Data Catalog

3. LiDAR returns: ~ 499.9 billion Size on disk: 12+ TB Area: 85,757 km 2 108 (7 TLS) datasets And growing! NSF: NCALM, UNAVCO, CZOs, LTER Other: World Bank, USGS, Tahoe Regional Planning Authority, Teton Conservation District, Oregon Lidar Consortium, Idaho Lidar Consortium, … Service Agreement: State of Indiana 13078.02 Red: NSF Green: Fed agency Blue: State/non-profit Data Status MOUs & Partnerships OpenTopography hosted data

4. OT Data Ingestion by Quarter NCALM Data Status: EarthScope, CZOs, PI datasets, seed projects ~75% of NCALM data available via OT More coming monthly

5. Use Metrics: Users & Data Access 17,790 pt. cloud jobs 447 billion pts processed 72,212 DEMs downloaded ~2,500 registered users 400,000,000,000 Total # of points processed 300 Unique users/month for point processing 5/2010 11/2012

6. Other resources: Tools, education & outreach Significant tutorial content, including videos: Short Courses & Workshops - Over subscribed; directly reached more than 150 participants, mostly students OT Tool Registry: community populated clearinghouse of software, utilities, and tools oriented towards high-resolution topography data processing, and analysis

7. info@opentopography.org Via Social Media OT Advisory Committee: Represents user community Nancy Glenn, Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University Stephen DeLong, USGS Menlo Park Jason Stoker, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Doug Yule, Department of Geological Sciences, Cal State Northridge Mark Williams, INSTAAR & Dept. Geography, CU Boulder TBD, ecology representative(?) Noah Finnegan (NCALM representative), Earth & Planetary Sci Dept., UC, Santa Cruz Student OT representative wanted! Self or community nominated. Announcement coming soon Engage with OpenTopography