Answer by Pete Gadomski for Extracting descriptive information from a LiDAR...
tl;dr: install libLAS and run lasinfo myfile.las.Lasfile headers, in general, shouldn't be trusted since they may not agree with the true data bounds. A more robust approach is to calculate the spatial...
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You can use the lasinfo utility from lastools which will return the .las header information (including the extent):http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/The lasinfo module in SAGA GIS will provide...
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Answer by Andre Silva for Extracting descriptive information from a LiDAR...
With Fusion, an option is the command line Catalog to retrieve descriptive statistics.Suppose Fusion is installed under the directory c:\fusionand the las file is stored in c:\lidar\point_cloud.las....
View ArticleAnswer by George Silva for Extracting descriptive information from a LiDAR...
You best bet is to use a specific software to find out the extent of this lidar file.Another way you can probably do it is to look at the header section of the file (if you have the raw file), which...
View ArticleExtracting descriptive information from a LiDAR cloud (.las files)
I have .las (lidar data) file, now I wanted to know the size of it, for example how long it's width and height in kilometers. How is it possible to retrieve these kind of info?
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