open LAS files

[Marchowes]

GDAL cant open LAS files natively, so that means either those types of files need to be converted into a DEM that GDAL can read, or a library needs to be found that can do that natively in python.

Some links:

https://liblas.org/tutorial/python.html https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/203392/finding-the-coordinate-system-info-from-a-las-lidar-file-with-python https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/284820/lidar-point-cloud-to-numpy-array-to-raster?rq=1 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12587171/how-to-create-a-grid-from-lidar-points-x-y-z-with-gdal-python https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/181712/creating-dem-from-las-file-without-using-lastools https://github.com/africker/lidargc https://github.com/laspy/laspy http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/conversion/las-dataset-to-raster.htm https://esriaustraliatechblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/las2dem-creating-raster-dems-and-dsms-from-las-lidar-files-in-arcgis-10-2/

Promising: https://spectraldifferences.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/creating-a-dem-from-lidar-data-using-the-arsf-dem-scripts/

[Marchowes]

https://github.com/LASliberator/LASliberator this too...

[Marchowes]

This may not be possible to do inside pyProm and might need to be a pre-process task.

[Marchowes]

see https://github.com/Marchowes/pyProm/issues/146