Author: Michael P. Gerlek

Every now and again, over the past couple of years, the question of lidar on the web has come across my desk. People…

GMT, the Generic Mapping Tools [1], is a package Ive heard about over the years but had never used. Mostly Id heard that…

Six months ago in this column, I described libLAS, an open source C++ library that provides classes for reading and writing the various…

This time, four different news items from around the open source and open data worlds Software: TOPS (Total Open Station) For the surveying…

Over the past few months, the widely-used LAS file format went through a revision process to make some incremental changes to the 1.3…

Have you thought about how much LiDAR data you are going to collect next year? Yes, I know, the cost of hard drive…

Last time, in episode #2, we looked at libLAS, a library for processing LAS data, and we mentioned that it is available under…

If youre developing software for the lidar world, odds are good youre going to need to work with the LAS file format at…

Its 2011 already and open source isnt the cool new buzzword it once was. The open source model is now mainstream: many of…