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LASmoons: Rachel Opitz
Rachel Opitz (recipient of three LASmoons) Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA Background: In Spring 2017 Rachel...
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Second German State Goes Open LiDAR
The floodgates of open geospatial data have opened in Germany. Days after reporting about the first state-wide release of open LiDAR, we are happy to follow up with a second wonderful open data story....
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Pre-Processing Mobile Rail LiDAR with LAStools
The majority of LAStools users are processing airborne LiDAR. That should not surprise as airborne is by far the most common form of LiDAR in terms of square kilometers covered. The availability of...
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LASmoons: Jesús García Sánchez
Jesús García Sánchez (recipient of three LASmoons) Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization (LERC) project Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands Background: Our project Landscapes of...
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Prototype for “native LAS 1.4 extension” of LASzip LiDAR Compressor Released
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) February 13, 2017 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for ILMF 2017 in Denver, the makers of the popular LiDAR processing software LAStools announce...
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LASmoons: Elia Palop-Navarro
Elia Palop-Navarro (recipient of three LASmoons) Research Unit in Biodiversity (UO-PA-CSIC) University of Oviedo, SPAIN. Background: Old-growth forests play an important role in biodiversity...
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LASmoons: Chloe Brown
Chloe Brown (recipient of three LASmoons) Geosciences, School of Geography University of Nottingham, UK Background: Malaysia’s North Selangor peat swamp forest is experiencing rapid and large scale...
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NRW Open LiDAR: Merging Points into Proper LAS Files
In the first part of this series we downloaded, compressed, and viewed some of the newly released open LiDAR data for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the second part we look at how to merge the...
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Leaked: “Classified LiDAR” of Pentagon in LAS 1.4 Format
LiDAR leaks have happened! Black helicopters are in the sky! A few days ago a tiny tweet leaked the online location of “classified LiDAR” for Washington, DC. This LiDAR really is “classified” and...
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Plots to Stands: Producing LiDAR Vegetation Metrics for Imputation Calculations
Some professionals in remote sensing find LAStools a useful tool to extract statistical metrics from LiDAR that are used to make estimations about a larger area of land from a small set of sample...
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LASmoons: Muriel Lavy
Muriel Lavy (recipient of three LASmoons) RED (Risk Evaluation Dashboard) project ISE-Net s.r.l, Aosta, ITALY. Background: The Aosta Valley Region is a mountainous area in the heart of the Alps. This...
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LASmoons: Gudrun Norstedt
Gudrun Norstedt (recipient of three LASmoons) Forest History, Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Background: Until the end of the 17th...
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LASmoons: Marzena Wicht
Marzena Wicht (recipient of three LASmoons) Department of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. Background: More than half of human population (Heilig 2012)...
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LASmoons: Huaibo Mu
Huaibo Mu (recipient of three LASmoons) Environmental Mapping, Department of Geography University College London (UCL), UK Background: This study is a part of the EU-funded Metrology for Earth...
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LAStools Win Big at INTERGEO Taking Home Two Innovation Awards
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) October 2, 2017 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany At INTERGEO 2017 in Berlin, rapidlasso GmbH – the makers of the popular LiDAR processing software LAStools –...
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Processing Drone LiDAR from YellowScan’s Surveyor, a Velodyne Puck based System
Points clouds from UAVs have become a common sight. Cheap consumer drones equipped with cameras produce points from images with increasing quality as photogrammetry software is improving. But...
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LASmoons: Chris J. Chandler
Chris J. Chandler (recipient of three LASmoons) School of Geography University of Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM Background: Wetlands provide a range of important ecosystem services: they store carbon,...
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LASmoons: Manuel Jurado
Manuel Jurado (recipient of three LASmoons) Departamento de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SPAIN Background: The availability of LiDAR data is creating a lot of...
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LASmoons: Sebastian Kasanmascheff
Sebastian Kasanmascheff (recipient of three LASmoons) Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, GERMANY Background: Forest inventories are the backbone of forest...
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Removing Low Noise from RIEGL’s VUX-1 UAV LiDAR flown in the Philippines
In this tutorial we are removing some “tricky” low noise from LiDAR point clouds in order to produce a high-resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM). The data was flown above a tropical beach and...
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