Tutorials

OpenTopography Portal:

• GEON LiDAR Workflow (GLW) Users Guide - (This tutorial was written for the pre-OpenTopogaphy version of the LiDAR point cloud system.  It is generally accurate but the look of the site as well as some features have changed since the migration to OpenTopography.org...we hope to put together an updated version soon)
• OpenTopography DEM Bulk Download Tutorial

GEON Software and Tools:

• Points2Grid Instructions / Help document
• LViz Users Guide

Past Short Courses:

2008 UNAVCO Short Course: Processing and Analysis of GeoEarthscope and Other Community LiDAR Topography Datasets

• GeoEarthScope DEM Data and ArcGIS
• OpenTopography Outputs (custom DEMs) and ArcMap
• Global Mapper and Basic Visualization of OpenTopography Products
• Introduction to LAStools (converting LAS format LIDAR point cloud data to ascii)
• Introduction to GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) (raster file format conversion and projection)

2007 Geological Society of America Short Course: Processing and Analysis of GeoEarthscope and Other Community LiDAR Topography Datasets


Also visit the OpenTopography Discussion Forum for helpful discussion about various topic related to LiDAR, data sets we host, and help with the OpenTopography system.