[GRASS-user] Importing LiDAR data

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Apr 27 10:45:33 PDT 2023


On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Maris Nartiss wrote:

> Peaking at the file list you provided, you are dealing with already
> processed LiDAR data in raster (and shapefile) format. Thus r.in.gdal is
> the way to go.
>
> r.in.las (obsolete) and r.in.pdal (the new way to go) deal with raw
> point clouds in LAS format. They perform point binning according to
> chosen criteria to generate a raster.

Māris,

Thanks very much for confirming what I thought was the case.

Much appreciated,

Rich


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