las2pcd

(c) by Arnadi Murtiyoso

Photogrammetry and Geomatics Group, ICube UMR 7357 INSA Strasbourg

Simple function written in C++ used to convert .LAS point cloud to PCL-compatible .PCD format.

Required dependencies:

• PCL (http://pointclouds.org/)
• libLAS (https://www.liblas.org/)

Ubuntu installation:

apt-get install -y git cmake

apt-get install -y libpcl-dev liblas-dev liblas-c-dev

git clone -b ubuntu-singularity https://github.com/gearslaboratory/las2pcd.git

cd las2pcd

cmake .

make

mv las2pcd /usr/bin/

Change log:

v0.1 (24 May 2017):

• created simple function to convert .las files to .pcd files

v0.2 (29 May 2017):

• added code to import .las point cloud color
• resolved problem with color scale difference between .las and PCL

v0.3 (16 March 2018), Jonathan Greenberg's fork (jgreenberg@unr.edu)

• cmake tweaked to work on standard Ubuntu systems (designed for a singularity install)
• requires: apt-get install -y libpcl-dev liblas-dev liblas-c-dev

v0.4 (15 June 2020):

• added code to retrieve intensity value from the .las file (credit to Antoine Carreaud)