[R-sig-Geo] read function for LAS data

[Michael Sumner]

Thanks Alex, I will eventually post this to a broader audience.

I've used liblas and lastools, but the aim here is for a pure R
implementation that is built directly from the LAS specification
without 3rd party tools.

The R code already works quite well to extract x/y/z/time/intensity,
it just needs some extra work to tidy up and generalize things and
ensure that very big datasets can be read.

Cheers, Mike.


On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 07:54 PM, Michael Sumner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking for interest in this functionality and eventually working
>> it into a package.
>>
>> I don't actually use LAS data much, and only have one example file so
>> I'm hoping others who do or know others who would be interested can
>> help. I have previously posted this to r-spatial-devel.
>>
> I think there are people who would use it. You might want to have a look
> at http://liblas.org/ (some of the same people that do gdal/org work)
> Wrapping this library might be a good approach. There are example files
> available too.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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