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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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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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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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Worldwide LiDAR of Rainforest Biomass for REDD+
We at rapidlasso have long been big fans of the biomass and biodiversity work done by Greg Asner’s group and their Carnegie Airborne Observatory. They were, in fact, the earliest “power-users” of the...
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Realizing 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...
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Removal of Cloud Returns With a Coarse DTM
Flying LiDAR in regions with frequent cloud cover presents a significant challenge. If flight plan constraints do not allow to stay below all of the clouds then some of them will be scanned from above....
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Using LAStools on Mac OS X with “Wine”
[contributed by guest blogger Yuriy Czoli] If you want to use LAStools on a Mac running OS X you will have to do some preparations. This is a brief introduction to get you up and running with LAStools...
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Rapidlasso Announces LASzip “Compatibility Mode” For LAS 1.4
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) October 6, 2014 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for INTERGEO 2014 in Berlin, rapidlasso GmbH has completed the first prototype that extends the...
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LASmoons: André Große-Stoltenberg
André Große-Stoltenberg (recipient of three LASmoons) Institute of Landscape Ecology University of Münster, Germany Background: The Genus Acacia inhibits some of the most invasive shrubs and trees...
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Discriminating Vegetation from Buildings
I came across an interesting blog article by Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne from the University of Vermont on how LiDAR return information can be used as a simple way to discriminate vegetated areas from...
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Rasterizing Perfect Canopy Height Models from LiDAR
In literature you sometimes read “we generated a Canopy Height Models (CHM) and then did this and that” without the process that was used to create the CHM being described in detail. One approach...
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Keeping ESRI Honest
Friends of LASzip and LAZ, it has come to my attention (from more than one source) that a certain company East of LA has started to more aggressively promote their proprietary LiDAR format known as the...
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