[Liblas-devel] Open source lidar software?

[Mike Grant]

On 06/04/11 18:19, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> I'm doing an informal survey of the landscape for open source lidar software
> (visualization, format conversion, dem generation, filtering/classification,
> etc), and it turns out the world is a lot more bleak than I'd expected:

We use GRASS for a lot of this (perhaps you've covered it with qgis?).

> Does anyone have any others to add to the list?  I'm only interested in
> tools for which source is available under a legit OSI license and which seem
> to be relatively stable and/or actively maintained -- so this excludes
> Fusion, ALPS, Opals, ALDPAT, lastools, fullanalyze, ...

We wrote a LAS viewer (GPL) for bigger-than-RAM LIDAR data but we've not
published it yet so it also doesn't count :/  I keep meaning to do this
(please nag!).

Cheers,

Mike.

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