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Read LiDAR data

Source: R/read_lidar.R
read_lidar.Rd

Read LiDAR data

Usage

read_lidar(folder = NULL, select = "xyz", filter = "-drop_class 7", ...)

Arguments

folder

Character. Path to folder containing las/laz files. Can also be a vector of file paths.

select

Character. Point attributes to read from the las/laz files. Use select = "*" to read all attributes. Default is "xyz" to save memory. See lidR::readLAS() for more details.

filter

Character. Optional. Use if you want to filter out some data points. For example, we could filter out noisy data points (class = 7) using filter = "-drop_class 7". Use filter = "" to read all data points.

...

Further arguments for lidR::readLAScatalog().

Value

LAScatalog object with LiDAR data

Examples

if (FALSE) {
las <- system.file("extdata", "PlazaNueva.laz", package = "CityShadeMapper")
lidar <- read_lidar(las)
}