Reading Laz Files

[Ke Salah]

Hi there

any one can help me to solve this :

1- how i can read the number of row and column of laz file;

2- how i can read data from laz line by line.

(im using LazZIp.net with c#)

thanks for any help

[Kirk Waters - NOAA Federal]

I think you may have a fundamental misunderstanding about the data type typically stored in an LAZ file. It's a point cloud, not a raster. It doesn't have rows and columns. There are no lines to read, only points. There are ways to store a raster as a point cloud, but reducing a point cloud to a raster is always a simplification of information.

Kirk

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[Ke Salah]

Hi thanks for the answer

I know that Laz files are storing points as cloud of points. But what i want to do is creating cloud points based on x,y,z on 3D space and save that information in double[x,y,z] array.
Im actualy abel to read points x,y,z data but
im not understanig how to order points to be stored in my array!
Im using LasZip.net with C#.

[adam steer]

Hi Ke Salah

That might be a question for a .net or C# forum - I hope someone here understands C# and can help! If not, your question seems to be:

"I can read xyz triplets from a binary file in C#, how do I organise them into an array?" 

In Python space, the array would be shaped like [number of points, number of dimensions], eg [1000, 3] if you had 1000 points with only X Y Z . They'd be sorted/ordered in the order they are read from the LAS file, usually by time.

Is that getting close to what you need?

Cheers

Adam

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