This dataset, located within the San Bernardino Mountains, CA, was collected as an NCALM Seed grant for Jesse Waco, San Jose State University, Geology Department to support an investigation of topographic stress control on subsurface weathered zone and seismic site conditions in southern California. The requested survey area is located approximately 25 km northwest of Palm Springs, CA. The polygon encloses approximately 64 km2. Note: A considerable percentage of the points in this dataset were classified as "building" (LAS class 6) although visual inspection indicates these points are mostly above-ground vegetation. For the purposes of distribution through OpenTopography, these points have been grouped with "unclassified" (LAS class 1) points to reduce point cloud classification to either "ground" or "unclassified" below.

NCALM Seed. PI: Alex Koch, University of Utah The requested survey area consisted of two polygons located east of Bryce, UT. The polygons enclose approximately 39 km2 (15 mi2). The survey will support a study on coupling of a high resolution base DEM and ultra-high resolution terrestrial DOMs to inform correlation of fluvial strata in the Straight Cliffs Formation, South-Central, Utah.

NCALM Seed. PI: Roman DiBiase, Arizona State University. The survey area consists of a 53 square kilometer polygon located in San Gabriel Mountains, Northeast of Los Angeles, California. Data were collected on July 17, 2007 to investigate the connection between tectonics and topography.

This dataset was collected as an NCALM Seed grant for PI Kevin Delano of Central Washington University. The requested survey area is a rectangle located 9 km NW of Bishop, CA in an area known as the Volcanic Tablelands. The geomorphological and lidar data were collected for the purpose of determining late Pleistocene slip rates in the Volcanic Tablelands.

NCALM Seed. PI: Seul Gi Moon, Stanford University. The survey area consisted of two separate polygons shown with red outlines below in Figure 1. The North polygon is located approximately 35 km West of Garberville, California and the South polygon is located approximately 42 km South of Garberville, California. The total area for the 2 polygons is approximately 47 km2. The survey took place on July 05, 2012.

This dataset was collected as an NCALM Seed grant for PI Katherine Lowe, University of Michigan, for the purpose of studying the effects of topography on peak ground acceleration. The requested survey area consisted of a polygon located 70 km northwest of Los Angeles, CA. The polygon encloses approximately 45.13 square km.

NCALM Seed Project. PI: Clinton M. Wood, University of Arkansas. The survey area is a square polygon with a surface area of 40.771 km2. The polygon is located approximately 95 km southeast of Provo, UT and 33 km east of Ephrain, UT. The data were collected to study the topographic amplification of earthquake ground motions.

NCALM Project. PI: Jacob Selander, University of California, Davis. The original Seed project requested survey area of 40 km2 was defined by two irregular polygons located along the Harper Lake Fault in the areas adjacent Gravel and Waterman Hills. Additional funding was secured to add two additional areas also located along the faults and between the original two polygons. The combined area of all the four polygons totaled 75.875 km2. The final data collection has an area of 246 km2 The Harper lake fault is aligned between the towns of Barstow and Ridgecrest, California. Two flights were required to collect the data. Both flights took place on Sunday June 17, 2012. It was collected on a Sunday because part of the survey area are underneath Restricted airspace controlled by the Edwards Air Force Base and access to it is preferably granted on Sundays. Also due to airspace restrictions the flying height above average ground was 900m rather than the preferred 600m. The plan consisted of 16 project lines running NW-SE along the fault center line.

PI: Steven G. Wesnousky, University of Nevada, Reno The requested survey area consisted of 1-km wide swaths centered along 335 km of fault centerlines. There were a total of 44 fault segments for 12 fault lines, totaling a nominal 335 km2 of map area. The faults are spread throughout an area of 15,600 km 2 of central western Nevada east of Lake Tahoe. The faults' names and 4 letter identifiers used for the data products are: Antelope Valley (AntV), Benton (Bent), Benton North (BntN), Bridgeport (Brdg), Carson Linement (CarL), Little Valley (LitV), Mason (Masn), Petrified Springs (PetS), Smith Valley (SmtV), Wassuks (Wass), Wabuska (Wbsk), Olinghouse Opton (OlOp).

NCALM Seed. PI: George Hilley, Stanford University. The survey area is a 48 square kilometer irregular polygon centered on the San Andreas Fault southwest of Taft, California. This area was surveyed on May 19, 2005 and covers the Dragon's Back Pressure Ridge.