Like GDAL, PDAL provides a format-agnostic, vendor-neutral framework for processing data, in this case point cloud data.

Please join LiDAR News at the 9th annual SPAR International Conference on End-to-End 3D taking place April 15-18, 2012 at The Woodlands (Houston), Texas.

I need some help on this one. The issue of the “quality” of a laser scan has come up this week while doing some research. Is the quality of a scan from a “low cost” scanner that much different than one that is 2 or 3 times as...

The center of the LiDAR universe is going to be in Sacramento, California at the Convention Center starting Monday March 19 and running through Friday the 23rd for ASPRS...

Everyone is under a lot of pressure to deliver, but the industry needs to decide whether developing standards matters.

In the case of a dispute that might arise at a later date having the trajectory data archived with the point cloud would provide highly valuable traceability.

As he pointed out to me last week, the best way to think about the 2 worlds of laser scanning is not in terms of scale, but rather in terms of objects and scenes.

Houston, we have blast off - the SPAR 2012 pre-conference sessions are taking off. I'll be a presenter in the ASCE Workshop that will include 4 hours on mobile mapping.

David Boardman the moderator for the Open Source 3D session wasted no time in telling us that he thought this would be the most important session of the conference - hmm.

Mobile - indoor even more so than outdoor is still the hot technology. It will be interesting to see where things are in a year.

A group of us were discussing the idea today of a “Consumer Reports” for the laser scanning industry. Seemed like an idea with a lot of potential – an independent group that would test hardware and software and provide an...