[GRASS-dev] grass 7.2 planning

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> The LiDAR tools I was thinking of is PDAL.
>
> http://www.pdal.io
>
> I guess it's C++. But it's open source without some of the legal and
> compiling issues of LAStools.

There is already a ticket:
#2732: Read lidar data as vector points using PDAL

Note that PDAL needs tons of extra packages including gl2ps, hexer,
jsoncpp, laszip, netcdf-cxx, nitro, openni, pcl, points2grid, qhull,
tinyxml, vtk, boost-date-time, boost-system.

:)

Markus