OpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.

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.