LAS/LAZ with waveforms

Read

LAS (and its compressed counterpart LAZ), is a popular format for LiDAR point cloud and full waveform.

Note that lidar_platform.las makes calls to laspy, you have to install this third party library first. The class lidar_platform.tootls.las.LasData inherits from laspy.LasData.

from lidar_platform import las
las_data = las.read('filename')
point_index = 0  # the index of the point in your LAS file
time, waveform = las_data.get_waveform(point_index)

class lidar_platform.tools.las.LasData(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

Bases: LasData

get_number_of_samples(index)

get_waveform(index, offset=0, make_positive=False)

get_waveform_data_packet_header()