[QGIS-Developer] Point cloud processing

[John Lindsay]

Hello all,


This is one of the first times that I've posted to this list-serv, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance if this is an inappropriate venue for this. I've noticed from a Twitter announcement that QGIS is pursuing native point cloud capabilities. I thought that this would be a good time that at the moment there is a substantial amount of LiDAR data processing capability that can be derived by using the WhiteboxTools QGIS front-end, and in particular the LiDAR processing toolbox<https://jblindsay.github.io/wbt_book/available_tools/lidar_tools.html>. The QGIS front-end is maintained by Alex Bruy, and I know that there has been interest in the past in including this in the main QGIS development branch such that WBT could be a standard toolset, much like how the SAGA and GRASS tools are now. I'm wondering, as you are thinking about enhancing QGIS's point cloud capabilities, if this is an opportune time to have that broader discussion of inclusion of WBT. While I have developed WBT to be front-end agnostic, and there are other front-ends for ArcGIS, Python, and R, the QGIS front-end is personally the most important of these to me. I would be very pleased for these tools to be distributed as a core component of QGIS if there is a willingness to do so among this members of this group.


Regards,


Dr. John Lindsay, Associate Professor

Dept. of Geography, Environment & Geomatics,

The University of Guelph,

Room 346, Hutt Building,
E-mail: jlindsay at uoguelph.ca

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56074

Web: https://geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/lindsay-john

Research page: https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html

WhiteboxTools OS GIS project: https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/WhiteboxTools/index.html
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