[GRASS-user] Importing LiDAR data

There are raster LiDAR modules (r.in.gdal, r.in.lidar, r.in.pdal) and the
latter two work with .las files, so I assume that my data use r.in.gdal.
It's been a long time since I've build LiDAR maps and I ask for the proper
command lines to 1) set the location for import and 2) import the data. An
example file tree is 10,008 lines long and downloadable (for 5 days) from:
<https://tinyurl.com/mmkf8pcd&gt;\.

TIA,

Rich

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:

There are raster LiDAR modules (r.in.gdal, r.in.lidar, r.in.pdal) and the
latter two work with .las files, so I assume that my data use r.in.gdal.
It's been a long time since I've build LiDAR maps and I ask for the proper
command lines to 1) set the location for import and 2) import the data. An
example file tree is 10,008 lines long and downloadable (for 5 days) from:
<https://tinyurl.com/mmkf8pcd&gt;\.

For now, I'm interested in only the bare earth data; learning which files to
use for the other data is still valuable.

Regards,

Rich

Peaking at the file list you provided, you are dealing with already
processed LiDAR data in raster (and shapefile) format. Thus r.in.gdal
is the way to go.

r.in.las (obsolete) and r.in.pdal (the new way to go) deal with raw
point clouds in LAS format. They perform point binning according to
chosen criteria to generate a raster.

Māris.

ceturtd., 2023. g. 27. apr., plkst. 19:46 — lietotājs Rich Shepard
(<rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>) rakstīja:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:

> There are raster LiDAR modules (r.in.gdal, r.in.lidar, r.in.pdal) and the
> latter two work with .las files, so I assume that my data use r.in.gdal.
> It's been a long time since I've build LiDAR maps and I ask for the proper
> command lines to 1) set the location for import and 2) import the data. An
> example file tree is 10,008 lines long and downloadable (for 5 days) from:
> <https://tinyurl.com/mmkf8pcd&gt;\.

For now, I'm interested in only the bare earth data; learning which files to
use for the other data is still valuable.

Regards,

Rich
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Maris Nartiss wrote:

Peaking at the file list you provided, you are dealing with already
processed LiDAR data in raster (and shapefile) format. Thus r.in.gdal is
the way to go.

r.in.las (obsolete) and r.in.pdal (the new way to go) deal with raw
point clouds in LAS format. They perform point binning according to
chosen criteria to generate a raster.

Māris,

Thanks very much for confirming what I thought was the case.

Much appreciated,

Rich