[Liblas-devel] Spreading the word..

[Howard Butler]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Jason Woolard wrote:

> Sorry for the late notice but I just wanted to give the list a quick  
> heads up. I co-presented at an American Society for Photogrammetry  
> and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) workshop this week in Baltimore. My  
> colleagues and I gave a workshop titled "A Do-It-Yourself Approach  
> to Lidar and Imagery Processing and Analysis Using Open-Source  
> Tools". The objective is pretty straightforward: how to work with  
> lidar and geo-spatial imagery if you don't have lots of $$ for  
> commercial software. We covered some pretty basic stuff in FWTools,  
> QGIS, Matlab/Octave and I specifically showed liblas in Python as  
> well as the power of Martin's LASTools. Nothing too fancy...Reading  
> and writing LAS, filtering points by height, intensity, scan angle,  
> etc. It was very much geared for the beginner/intermediate level.  
> Anyway, I have some slides and lab exercises that I'd be happy to  
> share with anyone who might be interested.

Neat.  If you have a PDF of the presentation materials, I'd be happy  
to put them on liblas.org in the documentation section.  I don't think  
we suffer from an overage of documentation materials.

/me wonders if the proprietary LiDAR software folks dropped in to take  
a look too ;)

Howard