Automatic Building Extraction using LP360

Last month’s tool tip discussed using the Planar Point Filter to filter buildings from point cloud data. This month’s tool tip discusses building extraction, essentially the next step after creating a building filter. The Point Group Tracing and Squaring Point Cloud Task will allow you to further refine the point cloud data classified as building…

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Classification of LIDAR points by Intensity

LIDAR data often contains many attributes in addition to the simple positional information for the individual returns. One useful attribute in the classification of LIDAR points is the intensity. The intensity represents the magnitude of the return pulse and is recorded as an integer value within the LAS format. The intensity information is what is…

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