LASzip wins 2012 Geospatial World Forum Technology Innovation Award
PRESS RELEASE April 26, 2012 rapidlasso consulting, Sommerhausen, Germany The creators of LAStools are the recipient of the 2012 Technology Innovation Award for LiDAR processing at the Geospatial...
View ArticleLiDAR processing with LAStools in the Canary islands
On my way to the FunGIS LiDAR workshop in Cairns, I stopped in Adelaide to visit Airborne Research Australia. Flinders University recorded my talk on the capabilities for LiDAR processing with...
View ArticleLAStools’ BLAST extension can process billions of LiDAR points
Often I get asked about the difference between las2dem.exe and blastdem.exe – the latter being part of the BLAST extension of LAStools. In the academic video from 2006 below, I outline the core...
View Articleworkshop at UNB Fredericton: LiDAR Processing with LAStools
After attending Silvilaser 2012 in Vancouver and giving a keynote on “The Story of LAStools”, I had a stop over in Halifax and drove a cute little Fiat 500 convertible on a perfect Indian summer fall...
View ArticleLASindex – spatial indexing of LiDAR data
Salzburg is a beautiful city in December. The European LiDAR Mapping Forum coincided with the days when the “Krampus” (= “Christmas monsters”) are roaming the Christmas markets in the old town to scare...
View ArticleLASzip Compression Details Published in PE&RS Journal
PRESS RELEASE February 25, 2013 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Technology start-up rapidlasso GmbH has published the details of their popular LASzip LiDAR compressor in the February 2013 issue of...
View Articlesneak peak at PulseWaves
PulseWaves is a new exchange format for full waveform LiDAR data. Below you see a simple visualization of a small sample of full waveform LiDAR data exported from RIEGL’s RiProcess to the PulseWaves...
View ArticleCan you copyright LiDAR?
A few weeks ago, I wanted to demonstrate how geometric compression can shorten download times for online dissemination of 3D archeological artifacts. The demo failed. My web page was gone. The web...
View ArticleTutorial: quality checking
This will be the part one of a three-part tutorial on how to use LAStools to implement a pipeline that (1) quality checks a newly received set of raw LiDAR flight strips, (2) tiles and prepares the...
View Articlenew scanner cross examines terrain
It seems Leica and Optech may have come a bit under “crossfire” (-: by the other big news (besides adding PulseWaves support to RiPROCESS) at the RIEGL LiDAR 2013 user conference in Vienna, namely the...
View Articlefinding Russian tanks in Polish forests
In August and September of 2013, I spent several weeks in the woods of Poland teaching LiDAR processing with LAStools to four groups of forestry students as part of the ForseenPOMERANIA camp. Wanting...
View ArticleTutorial: LiDAR preparation
This is part two of a three-part tutorial on how to use LAStools to implement a pipeline that (1) quality checks a newly received set of raw LiDAR flight strips, (2) tiles and prepares the LiDAR for...
View ArticleTutorial: derivative production
This is the final part of a three-part tutorial on how to use LAStools to implement a pipeline that (1) quality checks a newly received set of raw LiDAR flight strips, (2) tiles and prepares the LiDAR...
View Articlelocating German bunkers concealed by canopy
After accidentally finding Russian tanks in Polish forests I was curious to see if there was something else hiding under the forest canopy. Remember, I randomly picked a 500 by 500 meter LiDAR tile as...
View ArticleGRAFCAN launches “DSM on steroids”
GRAFCAN has launched a new product based on LiDAR for the Canary Islands: a digital suface model (DSM) that is literally “on steroids”. It is a synthetic view (not image-derived) that lets the user...
View ArticleGeoinformatics magazine interviews rapidlasso
Eric van Rees, the editor of the Geoinformatics magazine, met with rapidlasso GmbH at INTERGEO 2013 in Essen to have a quick chat about LAStools, LASzip, and PulseWaves as well as our LiDAR processing...
View ArticleRecovering 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...
View ArticleCall 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...
View Articleonline 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...
View Articleclone wars and drone fights
NEWSFLASH: update on Feb 5th and 6th and 17th (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...
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