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LiDAR heights of burial mounds and cairns
[contributed by guest blogger Lars Forseth] Archaeologists are increasingly finding ALS/LiDAR useful for making better surveys of archaeological sites and monuments. This is also done where these sites...
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Restricting Access to National LiDAR: Is it worth it?
Policy makers in many countries are debating whether it is worthwhile to open their National LiDAR holdings – collected with tax-payer money – for free (or cheap) open access or whether they should...
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Rapidlasso Teams Up with Carbomap
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) December 4, 2014 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for ELMF 2014 in Amsterdam, rapidlasso GmbH and Carbomap Ltd. have teamed up to further the...
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Beautiful Full-Waveform LiDAR of a Tropical Rainforest
Scanning forests with LiDAR is done to predict timber yield, estimate biomass, and monitor ecosystems. A detailed Digital Terrain Model (DTM) is needed to accurately compute forestry metrics such as...
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Aesthetic LiDAR Art in “REBIRTH”
Director Patryk Kizny shows us – once more – aesthetically pleasing visuals in his latest short “REBIRTH“. Already known for turning high-dynamic range (HDR) imagery captured in historic buildings into...
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The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI
We are concerned about ESRI’s next moves in forcing yet another proprietary format into wide-spread deployment. Forwarded emails, retold conversations, and personal experiences suggest that sneaky...
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LASmoons: Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith (recipient of three LASmoons) Some Cooperative that is part of Something This Agency, Somewhere, CANADA Background: Forestry and natural resource development are a large part of British...
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First LAStools Workshop in Latin America
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) March 9, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The week after Easter is poised to see Latin America’s premier LiDAR event of 2015 when LAStools, CloudCompare,...
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LAStools Toolbox for ERDAS IMAGINE 2014 Released
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) April 8, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The latest release of LAStools from rapidlasso GmbH contains a new toolbox for ERDAS IMAGINE®2014, allowing the...
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ultimate video hands-on for LiDAR with LAStools
An easy-to-follow video tutorial on LiDAR processing with LAStools recorded in two parts (1, 2) in Baja California on April 8th 2015 as part of a 3 day workshop at CICESE in Ensenada. It includes a...
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New LASliberator “frees” LiDAR from Closed Format
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) April 20, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The latest product by rapidlasso GmbH – creators of LAStools and LASzip – is an open source tool aiming to...
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Five Myths about LAS, LAZ, and “Optimized LAS”
The Open Letter by OSGeo was delivered to ESRI, OGC, and the ASPRS last week and the initial reponses – including an email from ESRI’s founder and president Jack Dangermond – are very encouraging....
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Trimble joins LASzip sponsors USACE, NOAA, and Quantum Spatial
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) July 13, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany We are happy to announce that Trimble’s Geospatial Division has become a sponsor of the LASzip compressor. Their...
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Two ASPRS awards for “pit-free” CHM algorithm
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) July 29, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The paper “Generating Pit-free Canopy Height Models from Airborne LiDAR” co-authored by rapidlasso GmbH and...
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LASmoons: Moreblessings Shoko
Moreblessings Shoko (recipient of three LASmoons) School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Background: Over one billion of the world’s population live in...
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Use Buffers when Processing LiDAR in Tiles !!!
We often process LiDAR in tiles for two reasons: first, to keep the number of points per file low and use main memory efficient, and second, to speed up the computation with parallel tile processing...
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LAStools Toolbox now also for ERDAS IMAGINE 2015
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) August 17, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany The August release of LAStools from rapidlasso GmbH now also contains a toolbox for the latest 15.1 version of...
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LASmoons: Bastian Schumann
Bastian Schumann (recipient of three LASmoons) Department of Remote Sensing and DLR German Aerospace Center University of Würzburg, GERMANY Background: The Bavarian Forest National Park is a protected...
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RIEGL Becomes LASzip Sponsor for LAS 1.4 Extension
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) August 31, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany We are happy to announce that RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, Austria has become a sponsor of the award-winning...
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Potree 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...
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