Terrain Tiles

Tutorials

• Using GDAL to Produce a Geotiff for an Area by Chris Henrick
  

Tools & Applications

• Customizable Terrain Tiles by Clockwork Micro
  
• Download topographical map contour lines as SVGs by Bunting Labs
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS Reader by Safe Software
  
• On The Go Map by On The Go Map
  
• Open-Source Elevation Service by Racemap
  
• PlanetUtils (GitHub): Scripts and a Docker container to download, merge, and resample terrain tiles by Interline Technologies
  
• PODPAC: Python Library supporting TerrainTiles for analysis by Creare
  
• R package for accessing Terrain Tiles by Jeffrey W. Hollister
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service for DEM by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground for DEM by Sinergise
  
• ShadeMap: Simulate sun shadows for any time and place on Earth by Ted Piotrowski
  
• Shadowmap | Sun-Powered Insights. Anywhere on Earth. by Shadowmap Technologies GmbH
  
• Terradactile: Generate DEM and hillshade Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs for visualization and download based on terrain tiles by Sparkgeo
  

Publications

• Interactive Visualization of 3D Terrain Data Stored in the Cloud by Gregory Larrick, Yun Tian, Uri Rogers, Halim Acosta, and Fangyang Shen
  
• Landscape transformations produce favorable roosting conditions for turkey vultures and black vultures by Jacob E. Hill, Kenneth F. Kellner, Bryan M. Kluever, Michael L. Avery, John S. Humphrey, Eric A. Tillman, Travis L. DeVault & Jerrold L. Belant
  

USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds

Tutorials

• Extracting buildings and roads from AWS Open Data using Amazon SageMaker by Yunzhi Shi, Tianyu Zhang, and Xin Chen
  Amazon SageMaker
• Using Lambda Layers with USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds by Howard Butler
  AWS Lambda
• WebGL Visualization of USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Clouds with Potree and Plasio.js by Connor Manning
  

Tools & Applications

• Equator - View, Process, and Download USGS 3DEP LiDAR data in-browser by Equator Studios
  
• Facebook Line of Sight Check by Facebook
  
• Jupyter Notebooks to enable programmatic access to cloud-hosted USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data by OpenTopography
  
• OpenTopography access to 3DEP lidar point cloud data by OpenTopography
  

Publications

• Statewide USGS 3DEP Lidar Topographic Differencing Applied to Indiana, USA by Chelsea Phipps Scott, Matthew Beckley, Minh Phan, Emily Zawacki, Christopher Crosby, Viswanath Nandigam, and Ramon Arrowsmith
  
• USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Cloud Now Available as Amazon Public Dataset by Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
  

ArcticDEM

Tutorials

• PGC Dynamic STAC API Tutorial by Polar Geospatial Center
  

Tools & Applications

• ArcticDEM Explorer by Polar Geospatial Center & ESRI
  
• OpenTopography access to ArcticDEM by OpenTopography
  

Publications

• Automated stereo-photogrammetric DEM generation at high latitudes: Surface Extraction with TIN-based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) validation and demonstration over glaciated regions by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  
• Automatic relative RPC image model bias compensation through hierarchical image matching for improving DEM quality by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  
• Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat by Michalea D. King, Ian M. Howat, Salvatore G. Candela, Myoung J. Noh, Seongsu Jeong, Brice P. Y. Noël, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Bert Wouters, Adelaide Negrete
  
• Future Evolution of Greenland's Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers by Ginny A. Catania, Leigh A. Stearns, Twila A. Moon, Ellen M. Enderlin, R. H. Jackson
  
• The surface extraction from TIN based search-space minimization (SETSM) algorithm by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  

New Zealand Elevation

Tutorials

• Browsing the s3://nz-elevation bucket by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
  
• Elevation survey naming and path conventions by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
  

Tools & Applications

• LINZ Basemaps by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
  
• LINZ Data Service by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
  
• LINZ Topographic Workflows - Bulk elevation data processing with Kubernetes and Argo Workflows by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
  

Publications

• Dairy farming exposure and impacts from coastal flooding and sea level rise in Aotearoa-New Zealand by Heather Craig, Alec Wild and Ryan Paulik
  
• Stress Detection in New Zealand Kauri Canopies with WorldView-2 Satellite and LiDAR Data by Jane J. Meiforth, Henning Buddenbaum, Joachim Hill, James D. Shepherd and John R. Dymond
  
• Underpinning Terroir with Data: Integrating Vineyard Performance Metrics with Soil and Climate Data to Better Understand Within-Region Variation in Marlborough, New Zealand by R. G. V. Bramley, J. Ouzman, A. P. Sturman, G. J. Grealish, C. E. M. Ratcliff and M. C. T. Trought
  

Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA)

Tutorials

• PGC Dynamic STAC API Tutorial by Polar Geospatial Center
  

Tools & Applications

• OpenTopography access to REMA by OpenTopography
  
• REMA Explorer by Polar Geospatial Center & ESRI
  

Publications

• Automated stereo-photogrammetric DEM generation at high latitudes: Surface Extraction with TIN-based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) validation and demonstration over glaciated regions by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  
• Automatic relative RPC image model bias compensation through hierarchical image matching for improving DEM quality by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  
• Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet by Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Binder, T. et al.
  
• The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica by Ian M. Howat, Claire Porter, Benjanim E. Smith, Myoung-Jong Noh, Paul Morin
  
• The surface extraction from TIN based search-space minimization (SETSM) algorithm by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  

Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset

Tutorials

• LiDAR Tutorial using QGIS by Michal Michalski
  
• LiDAR Tutorial using R by Michal Michalski
  

Tools & Applications

• Scottish Remote Sensing Portal by Scottish Government and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
  

Publications

• Large area archaeological survey in the age of big data and machine learning by Dave Cowley, George Geddes, Łukasz Banaszek, Kirsty Millican and Iris Kramer
  
• Making LiGHT Work of Large Area Survey? Developing Approaches to Rapid Archaeological Mapping and the Creation of Systematic National-scaled Heritage Data by Dave Cowley, Łukasz Banaszek, George Geddes, Angela Gannon, Mike Middleton and Kirsty Millican
  
• New light on medieval settlement in lowland Scotland by Dave Cowley and Piers Dixon
  
• Towards National Archaeological Mapping. Assessing Source Data and Methodology - A Case Study from Scotland by Łukasz Banaszek, Dave Cowley and Mike Middleton
  

EarthDEM

Tutorials

• PGC Dynamic STAC API Tutorial by Polar Geospatial Center
  

Tools & Applications

• GLARS Data Viewer by Great Lakes Alliance for Remote Sensing
  
• NASA CSDA SmallSat Data Explorer by NASA Commercial Smallsat Acquisition Program
  

Publications

• Automated stereo-photogrammetric DEM generation at high latitudes: Surface Extraction with TIN-based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) validation and demonstration over glaciated regions by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  
• Multi-Source EO for Dynamic Wetland Mapping and Monitoring in the Great Lakes Basin by Michael J. Battaglia, Sarah Banks, Amir Behnamian, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Brian Brisco, Jennifer Corcoran, Zhaohua Chen, Brian Huberty, James Klassen, Joseph Knight, Paul Morin, Kevin Murnaghan, Keith Pelletier, Lori White
  
• The surface extraction from TIN based search-space minimization (SETSM) algorithm by Myoung-Jong Noh, Ian M. Howat
  

Global 30m Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND)

Tutorials

• Generate your own HAND data in Python by Alaska Satellite Facility
  
  
• Search the GLO-30 HAND Catalog in Python by Alaska Satellite Facility
  
  

Tools & Applications

• GLO-30 HAND ImageServer by Alaska Satellite Facility
  
• GLO-30 HAND Webmap by Alaska Satellite Facility
  

Publications

• AGU 2022: A New Global 30m HAND Dataset to Support Hydrological Services and Applications by Joseph H. Kennedy, et al.
  

KyFromAbove on AWS

Tutorials

• KyFromAbove Bulk Download Area of Interest from Tile Index by Ian Horn
  
  Amazon S3
• KyFromAbove County Bulk Download by Ian Horn
  
  Amazon S3

Publications

• A New View of Kentucky's Cities by Kent Anness
  
• KyFromAbove is democratizing key data in Kentucky by Matt Collins
  
• KyTopo! Kentucky's New Topographic Map Series by Kent Anness
  

NASA / USGS Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Cloud Optimized Point Cloud

Tutorials

• Discovering and Downloading Data via the Command Line by J. Laura
  
• Discovering and Downloading Data with Python by J. Laura
  
• Querying for Data in an ROI and Loading it into QGIS by J. Laura
  

Tools & Applications

• Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) by PDAL Contributors
  
• PySTAC Client by PySTAC-Client Contributors
  

Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo (PMSP) LiDAR Point Cloud

Tools & Applications

• Entwine by Hobu, Inc.
  
• Fusion by US Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
  
• LAStools by rapidlasso GmbH, GERMANY
  
• PDAL - Point Data Abstraction Library by PDAL Contributors
  

Publications

• Describing the Vertical Structure of Informal Settlements on the Basis of LiDAR Data – A Case Study for Favelas (Slums) in Sao Paulo City by S. C. L. Ribeiro, M. Jarzabek-Rychard, J. P. Cintra, H.-G. Maas
  

Vermont Open Geospatial on AWS

Tutorials

• Imagery Program FAQs by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Lidar Program FAQs by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  

Tools & Applications

• Elevation Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Imagery Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Landcover Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Elevation by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Imagery by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Landcover by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  

JAXA / USGS / NASA Kaguya/SELENE Terrain Camera Digital Terrain Models

Tutorials

• Discovering and Downloading Data via the Command Line by J. Laura
  
• Discovering and Downloading Data with Python by J. Laura
  
• Querying for Data in an ROI and Loading it into QGIS by J. Laura
  

Tools & Applications

• PySTAC Client by PySTAC-Client Contributors
  

NASA / USGS Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) Targeted DTMs

Tutorials

• Discovering and Downloading Data via the Command Line by J. Laura
  
• Discovering and Downloading Data with Python by J. Laura
  
• Querying for Data in an ROI and Loading it into QGIS by J. Laura
  

Tools & Applications

• PySTAC Client by PySTAC-Client Contributors
  

Copernicus Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

Tools & Applications

• EO Browser by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service and Process API by Sinergise
  

NOAA Coastal Lidar Data

Tools & Applications

• OpenTopography access and processing of NOAA Coastal Lidar Data by OpenTopography
  

New Jersey Statewide LiDAR

Tutorials

• 3D Visualization by stephanie.bosits@tech.nj.us
  

Virtual Shizuoka, 3D Point Cloud Data

Tutorials

• Tutorial of handling LAS format point cloud data by AIGID