[Qgis-user] Generating a raster from ASCII data

[David Burton]

Hello,

I am new to GIS and have downloaded QGIS Essen. My intention as an 
amateur archaeologist was to use free LiDAR elevation data from the UK 
Environment Agency which is supplied in the ASCII format. Is there a 
method of generating a raster from ASCII using QGIS/Grass/Saga? Or 
alternatively any other open source software to do this before loading 
the new raster into QGIS?

Regards,    David Burton.