Knowing if a LAS/LAZ RGB (color) is stored as an 8 bit or 16 bit value ?

[Albion Shabani]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem with some LAS/LAZ files. 

Actually it is not really a LAS/LAZ problem but some of the LAS/LAZ files have the RGB (color) stored as an 8 bit or 16 bit value.

We don’t know which is the RGB range of values in order to convert in our format. 

I know that las2las.exe  -scale_rgb_down puts into the right format if the LAS/LAS file was stored in 16 value. 

But if it was in 8 the color wont be right.

Is there any lastool that can tell if the LAS/LAZ file is in 8 or 16 value so that depending on that I can do --scale_rgb_down or -scale_rgb_up

Thank you in advance.

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello,

I've added new transforms to las2las that are called '-scale_RGB_to_8bit' and '-scale_RGB_to_16bit' and that will only downscale 16 bit RGB values to 8 bit values if they are really 16 bits and will only upscale 8 bit RGB values to 16 bit values if they are really 8 bits. You can download a preliminary version of this tool here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1mpesi17hd2dk6/las2las.exe

Regards,

Martin

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