[Liblas-devel] Open source lidar software?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Yes, grass is on my list but got omitted from the mail.

I'll call your bluff / nag you on the viewer, though -- can you give us any
details?

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Grant [mailto:mggr at pml.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:31 AM
> To: mpg at flaxen.com
> Cc: liblas-devel at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Liblas-devel] Open source lidar software?
> 
> On 06/04/11 18:19, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > I'm doing an informal survey of the landscape for open source lidar
> > software (visualization, format conversion, dem generation,
> > filtering/classification, etc), and it turns out the world is a lot more
bleak
> than I'd expected:
> 
> We use GRASS for a lot of this (perhaps you've covered it with qgis?).
> 
> > Does anyone have any others to add to the list?  I'm only interested
> > in tools for which source is available under a legit OSI license and
> > which seem to be relatively stable and/or actively maintained -- so
> > this excludes Fusion, ALPS, Opals, ALDPAT, lastools, fullanalyze, ...
> 
> We wrote a LAS viewer (GPL) for bigger-than-RAM LIDAR data but we've not
> published it yet so it also doesn't count :/  I keep meaning to do this
(please
> nag!).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike.
> 
>
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