Shaun wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has tried to extract building footprints
> from LiDAR LAS files.
MS wrote:
There is a great suite of lidar tools
in GRASS. One that might target your needs is http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.lidar.edgedetection.html
more generically and for LAS integration see also
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR
> I searched the archives and could not find anything.
I recall there was some discussion exactly about adding/removing
building footprints from lidar data in the past. Keep hunting both the
user and -dev list archives!
Hamish