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...
View ArticleLiDAR 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....
View ArticlePreparing 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...
View ArticleRealizing Open LiDAR with ArcGIS Online and LASzip
Putting aside for a moment our controversy with ESRI over their “uncool” move to create yet another proprietary format whose only benefit is vendor lock-in (read this, this, or this for more on their...
View ArticleEngland Releases National LiDAR DEM with Insane (!) Vertical Resolution
This article could also be titled “How not to implement a national open data policy for massive geospatial data sets” or “Forget single-photon LiDAR, England already has single-quantum LiDAR” … (-: You...
View ArticlePotree puts Big and Beautiful LiDAR in Your Browser
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) September 14, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for INTERGEO 2015, the Potree software was released in its latest 1.3 version. Potree is a WebGL...
View ArticleCreate proper LAS 1.4 files with LAStools (for free)
So your LiDAR processing workflow produces beautiful LAS or LAZ output. You think the files are nothing short of perfect. But they are in LAS 1.2 format and the tender document explicitly requests...
View ArticleNew ‘laspublish’ creates Web Portals for 3D Viewing and Downloading of LiDAR
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) February 18, 2016 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for ILMF 2016, the makers of the open LASzip LiDAR compressor annouce the latest addition to...
View ArticleFixing Intensity Differences between Flightlines (“quick and dirty”)
Visiting our users on-site, such as last week at Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte in the Philippines, we sometimes come across situations as pictured below where the intensity values of...
View ArticleFirst Open LiDAR in Germany
Kudos to OpenNRW for offering online download links for hundreds of Gigabytes of open LiDAR for the entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) as announced a few months ago: download...
View ArticleNRW Open LiDAR: Download, Compression, Viewing
This is the first part of a series on how to process the newly released open LiDAR data for the entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia that was announced a few days ago. Again, kudos to OpenNRW for...
View ArticleSecond German State Goes Open LiDAR
The floodgates of open geospatial data have opened in Germany. Days after reporting about the first state-wide release of open LiDAR, we are happy to follow up with a second wonderful open data story....
View ArticlePrototype for “native LAS 1.4 extension” of LASzip LiDAR Compressor Released
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) February 13, 2017 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for ILMF 2017 in Denver, the makers of the popular LiDAR processing software LAStools announce...
View ArticleLeaked: “Classified LiDAR” of Pentagon in LAS 1.4 Format
LiDAR leaks have happened! Black helicopters are in the sky! A few days ago a tiny tweet leaked the online location of “classified LiDAR” for Washington, DC. This LiDAR really is “classified” and...
View ArticleScotland’s LiDAR goes Open Data (too)
Following the lead of England and Wales, the Scottish LiDAR is now also open data. The implementation of such an open geospatial policy in the United Kingdom was spear-headed by the Environment Agency...
View ArticleFirst Look with LAStools at LiDAR from Hovermap Drone by CSIRO
Last December we had a chance to visit the team of Dr. Stefan Hrabar at CSIRO in Pullenvale near Brisbane who work on a drone LiDAR system called Hovermap. This SLAM-based system is mainly developed...
View ArticleLASmoons: Sebastian Flachmeier
Sebastian Flachmeier (recipient of three LASmoons) UniGIS Master of Science, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA Bavarian Forest National Park, administration, Grafenau, GERMANY Background: The Bavarian...
View ArticleAnother European Country Opens LiDAR: Welcome to the Party, Slovakia!
We got a little note from Vítězslav Moudrý from CULS pointing out that the Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic has started releasing LiDAR as open data on their...
View ArticleDevelopment and perspective
Beside maintenance and customer support, LAStools will certainly need some updates and further development to remain competitive. We are currently working on the following tasks. New GUI LAStools is a...
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