Unfortunately, much LIDAR data has been delivered in text format (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII) rather than the rich binary LAS format. Many agencies now have disk drives of LIDAR, in ASCII format, on the shelf that accompanied more familiar LIDAR-derived products such as gridded Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and digital contour files.…
LP360 has the ability to manage very large data sets. Unlike some other LIDAR processing applications, LAS files in LP360 are visible as LIDAR content regardless of the “zoom” level. In this article, I will explain how we accomplish this and what it means in terms of interacting with LP360. When you are zoomed out…
Did you know that you can “tune” how LP360 uses memory? This is accomplished via the Performance tab on the LAS Layer Properties dialog (Figure 1). A word of caution is in order before modifying these settings. If you are running a 32-bit version of LP360 (and, unfortunately, LP360 for ArcGIS® is forced to be…
LP360 uses “stamps” for Point Cloud Tasks (PCT) and “brushes” for manual data reclassification. The stamps of the PCT include a single circular stamp and a single square stamp. The paint brushes include small, medium and large brushes. But did you realize that these are actually “templates”, the size of which you can modify? Read…
