[GRASS-user] .LAS file

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/15/2011 10:21 AM, Harish wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Why QGIS is not able to open .las (LIDAR Data Exchange File) formats. Is it
> not under Gdal support?
> 
> Regards
> 

First this is a QGIS question, not a a GRASS question. Should be asked
on qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org

No GDAL\OGR does not directly read LAS you need liblas
http://liblas.org/utilities/las2ogr.html

Alternately GRASS does contain functionality to deal with lidar
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR#Import_LAS_as_vector_points
Though it looks like you'll need to use Liblas to convert the data to
text 1st for GRASS.

Enjoy,
Alex