[Java-collab] LIDAR Data

[andrea antonello]

Hi Landon,
actually the solution is really near to you :)

The Italian project "adb toolbox" created a set of tools for ... openjump :)
In that code there is a las-reader.

A couple of years ago I looked into the code. It was developed in a
non-so-community-friendly mode. It took me a while to find the code
and there it wasn't really documented (few comments and if, in
Italian).
Anyways there was a LasReader in the package, so you might want to check.
We had some problems with reading the data for our project, so we had
to tweak it a bit following the specs.

So, in short (finally :)):
- hmepage: http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/GN/adbtoolbox.php?lan=en
- sourcecode seems to be pretty accessible these days (you will have
to register)

If you have problems with the libs, get back to me. I thought my
modified code had been pubblished in the jgrasstools project but I
don't seem to find it. I will surely add it soon.


Cheers,
Andrea



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Java Code Slingers:
>
> My company is starting to work with more and more LIDAR data. I've
> tinkered with libLAS and LASTools, but both are written in C and there
> are some licensing restrictions on some parts of LASTools.
>
> A Google search for "Java LIDAR Library" pulled up some source code I
> though was from gvSIG.
>
> Does gvSIG have the ability to read/write LAS files? If so, where
> might I find the latest code and contribute to the development of the
> library? (Hopefully someone from gvSIG is on this mailing list.)
>
> Is there interest in working together on a low-level Java library for
> LIDAR data? Is this something we could do as part of GeoTools?
>
> I'd like to not reinvent the wheel, and I know I'm going to need LIDAR
> tools for OpenJUMP. I'm hoping this is a change to work together.
>
> Perhaps there is already a great open source Java library for LIDAR
> that I don't know about. :]
>
> Let me know what is out there, and what the level of interest is on a
> jointly developed LIDAR library and tool framework.
>
> Landon
> _______________________________________________
> Java-collab mailing list
> Java-collab at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/java-collab