Sometimes it may be useful to “cookie-cut” LIDAR points by polygons. The polygons may represent rectangular grids, such as quarter quads, or can be irregularly shaped. Cookie-cut allows you to use a shape file of one or more polygons. An attribute from the Shape file can be used to name the various files. This is set…
A quick and basic way to get information about projection information, GPS time and the number of points within an LAS file is to run the LDDump executable. The program is designed to pull the information directly from the public header block of the LAS file, provided the header has been correctly populated with the…
Feature Analyst is an exciting new tool that will appear in LP360/Topolyst 2016.2. To motivate this discussion, I will provide a synopsis of a few use cases for Feature Analyst here. A detailed look at these cases is presented at the end of this article. Examples of tests you will be able to perform with…
