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Working with LiDAR

Updated August 20, 2024


This article applies to:
  • Terrain 3D
  • Terrain Forestry
  • RoadEng Civil
  • RoadEng Forestry

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) surveys produce very large amounts of relatively accurate three dimensional point data. The data includes points representing laser light scattered from the ground (bare earth), foliage, buildings, transmission lines and other objects. This data is usually broken into tiles, each containing a few million points.

In this section, you will find information on working with LiDAR data, including how to import it, set things up and reduce or thin the data: