Discussions

Posted by mable on March 18, 2018 at 11:37pm

Which open source or commercial software can generate DEM’s of lidar point cloud?

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

cloud, lidar, point

Email me when people reply –

JP March 20, 2018 at 6:30am

as mentioned, Lastools is awesome and has open source components
Andre K. March 19, 2018 at 11:52am

CloudCompare can rasterize, export til geotiff. - that's open source. - great one.
Julie March 19, 2018 at 12:13am

Commonly used softwares are Terrasolid, Arcgis，ENVI LiDAR, Lastools etc. Arcgis is a professional GIS software which provides DEM interpolation methods such as Polynomial, Kriging etc. However, the generating speed will be slow if the point cloud data is too large. Another would be Lidar360. It is a commercial processing software which handles large datasets well. It can also provide a variety of dem generation methods such as tin, idw, kriging etc