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LiDAR functions

Joris Jonkers Both edited this page Jan 31, 2018 · 6 revisions

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LAStools

This page describes the functionality of the LAStools that might be used on LiDAR data.

DEM (Digital Elevation Model) = DSM and DTM

DTM (Digital Terrain Model = ground points DSM (Digital Surface Model) = non-ground points

Useful tools

usage [name of function] -i filename.las -o new_filename.las

lasmerge

Merges two or more .las/.laz files together into one

lasmerge -i in1.las -i in2.las -o new_filename.las

lastile

Tiles a potentially large amount of LAS points from one or many files into square, non-overlapping tiles of specified size.

lasground_new

Classifies LiDar datapoints into ground (class = 2) and non-ground (e.g. buildings/vegetation) (class = 1). usage

lasnoise

Detects noise and marks it as class = 7

lasheight

Computes the height of non_ground points (class = 1), given that the datapoints have already been classified (using e.g. lasground)

lasclassify

Classifies datapoints into buildings and high vegetation (e.g. trees), given that the data has already been classified into ground and non-ground points (using e.g. lasground) and the height of non ground points has been computed (using e.g. lasheight).

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