Fast prototyping for LiDAR-scanned point cloud editing operations

Abstract

Recently, we have lots of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data. They are typically a set of point cloud, for applications of high-resolution maps, geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, airborne laser swath mapping, laser altimetry, and others. We have implemented an efficient LiDAR data handling library and its GUI-style application program. In this paper, we presented an efficient way of fast prototyping some LiDAR point cloud handling operations. We also show the results of these fast prototyping.