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Import Point Clouds #48

Open tyson-swetnam opened 5 years ago

tyson-swetnam commented 5 years ago

To import point cloud data, we want to use either LASTools and its lasinfo feature or PDAL

Lidar data are typically in a LAS file format, the compressed version is LAZ. There are also lidar data that come as PLY, BIN, and XYZ.

We want to force users to use the standard LAS/LAZ with standard metadata headers.

PDAL: https://github.com/PDAL/java

las Zip (a compressin algorithm for LAS) https://github.com/mreutegg/laszip4j

tyson-swetnam commented 5 years ago

This is going to be a big lift, maybe not possible this summer, but definitely needs to be in the pipeline for future.

I've tagged David here to hopefully get some input.