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Recovering Flight Lines in Fiji
Recently rapidlasso GmbH gave a workshop on LiDAR processing with LAStools at SOPEC in Suva, Fiji following the 2013 Pacific GIS and RS user conference. In the exercises we used LiDAR from the Nadi and...
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new compressed LAS format by ESRI
Today I got an email from a LAStools user at NOAA pointing out a new entry in the ArcGIS 10.2 documentation of ESRI that mentions a new *.zlas format. He spends a good portion of time on the ArcGIS...
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Call for Input on Compression of LAS 1.4
PRESS RELEASE January 21, 2014 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The creators of the widely-used open source LiDAR compressor LASzip are issuing a “Call for Input” for extending the popular LAZ...
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online Web viewer for LiDAR
Nifty! Am online Web viewer for LiDAR data in LAS or ASCII format that can load files from your local drive. Very handy in case you need to inspect or show off a LAS file but do not have any LiDAR...
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clone wars and drone fights
NEWSFLASH: update on Feb 5th and 6th (see end of article) The year 2014 shapes to be a fun one in which the LiDAR community will see some major laser battles. (-: First, ESRI starts a “lazer clone war”...
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Warming up for ILMF 2014, rapidlasso puts lean yet plush “LASlayers” on LiDAR
PRESS RELEASE February 14, 2014 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany As a sweet foretaste to ILMF 2014, the creators of LAStools, LASzip, and PulseWaves are announcing “LASlayers” already on Valentine’s...
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Tutorial: editing LAS or LAZ files “by hand” with lasview
This tutorial describes how to manually edit LiDAR using the new inspection and editing functionality available in ‘lasview.exe’ with the latest release of LAStools (version 140301). We will work with...
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LASmoons: Scott W. Anderson
Scott W. Anderson (recipient of three LASmoons) University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) Background: In September of 2013, a combination of atmospheric...
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LASmoons: Chris Dunn
Chris Dunn (recipient of three LASmoons) University of New England, Australia School of Environmental & Rural Science Background: Pseudomys oralis, commonly known as the Hastings River Mouse (HRM),...
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Density and Spacing of LiDAR
Recently I worked with LiDAR from an Optech Gemini scanner in the Philippines and with LiDAR from a RIEGL Q680i scanner in Thailand. The two devices scan the terrain below with a very different...
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Esri and rapidlasso develop joint LiDAR compressor
PRESS RELEASE (April Fools’ Day) April 1, 2014 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany In a positive spin of events, Esri and rapidlasso are announcing to join forces and together develop a LiDAR...
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new “LAStools Production” and “LAStools Pipelines” for ArcGIS
In what some may call a “good LAZ, bad zLAS” routine, rapidlasso GmbH announces better integration of their LiDAR processing technology into ESRI’s ArcGIS platform with new and improved LAStools...
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LiDAR downloads via WMS
The Geographic Information Section of the Government of La Rioja in Spain has integrated information about their “open LiDAR” data with a WMS server allowing their users to easily find and download it....
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LASmoons: Asger S. Petersen
Asger S. Petersen (recipient of three LASmoons) Copenhagen, Denmark Partner & Consultant, Septima Background: The Danish Geodata Agency has acquired country wide LiDAR coverage. Approximately 1/4th...
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First ever LiDAR Processing Model in QGIS using LAStools
We at rapidlasso had finally the chance to meet Victor Olaya of Boundless who created the Processing framework (formerly know as Sextante) that is now integral part of QGIS. On the last day of the...
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Generating a DTM from Dense-Matching Photogrammetry
Point clouds from dense-matching photogrammetry are popular. Stored in the LAS format – or its compressed LAZ twin – these “near-LiDAR” points are easily ingested into LiDAR processing software to, for...
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LASmoons: Anu Swatantran
Anu Swatantran (recipient of three LASmoons) Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, USA Background: Single photon LiDAR (SPL) is a promising new technology for...
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Preparing raw LiDAR for efficient (online) distribution
On August 14th, Prof. David Pyle tweeted about raw LiDAR being publically available for the vulcanic island Nea Kameni and its little sibling Palea Kameni that are part of the Santorini caldera in...
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Processing Large Dense-Matching Point Clouds
It is easy to generate Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from the point clouds generated by dense-matching photogrammetry. The blast2dem tool that is part of the BLAST extension of LAStools can seamlessly...
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Six New Video Tutorials on LAStools
What is part of the LAStools distribution? Cross-sections and editing points with lasview Overview of LAStools capabilities Details on different LAStools modules LAStools Pipelines as ArcGIS and QGIS...
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