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The OpenTopography Tool Registry provides a community populated clearinghouse of software, utilities, and tools oriented towards high-resolution topography data (e.g. collected with lidar technology) handling, processing, and analysis. Tools registered below range from source code to full-featured software applications. We welcome contributions to the registry via the Contribute a Tool page.
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| Date | Tool Name | Tool Type | Keywords | Rating |
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| 29 Jul 2015 | lidar2dems Description: The lidar2dems project is a collection open-source (FreeBSD license) command line utilities for supporting the easy creation of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from LiDAR data. lidar2dems uses the PDAL library (and associated dependencies) for doing the actual point processing and gridding of point clouds into raster data. |
DEM generation | DEM, DSM, DTM, CHM, PDAL, points2grid, gridding |  (0 rating) |
| 31 Jul 2018 | PDAL Description: PDAL is the Point Data Abstraction Library. PDAL allows you to compose operations on point clouds into pipelines of stages. These pipelines can be written in a declarative JSON syntax or constructed using the available API. PDAL is available on Ubuntu, Conda (OSX/Windows), and Homebrew. |
Visualization, Point Cloud Analysis, DEM generation, DEM Analysis, Data Management / Handling, Software Suite |  (1 rating) |
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| 29 Jun 2017 | PDAL Ground Classification Tool (GUI Enabled) Description: This is a GUI enabled version of the PDAL ground classification tool which supports both SMRF and PMF ground classification methods. It provides for automated ground return classification and supports both LAS and LAZ files. Code base is PDAL version 1.5 and has been compiled for 64-bit editions of Windows 7 or greater. All necessary exe's and DLL's are included in the installer. |
DEM generation, DEM Analysis, Data Management / Handling | ground return classification PDAL SMRF PMF GUI automatic automated | (0 rating) |