Sensors and Systems
-->
Breaking News
GEOSA, Singapore Land Authority Launch Achievements of Joint Geospatial System Project
Riyadh, SPA — The General Authority for Survey and...
Woolpert Partners with Teren to Further Expand its Geospatial Services to Global Energy Customers
The combined industry-leading lidar capabilities and software solutions will...
Topcon 3D leveling system now compatible with new Dynapac Highway Paver series
MUNICH — Topcon Positioning Systems has announced that its...

Author Archive

image

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

The Proposed LAS 1.4 Specification Crashes Software and Corrupts Data

The LAS format – introduced in 2004 by the ASPRS – has become the de-facto international standard for storing and exchanging point data acquired by airborne LIDAR scanners. It has wide acceptance and can be read and written by almost any LIDAR processing software. There now exist Exabytes of LIDAR that can easily be exchanged