ArcGIS LiDAR processing toolbox (9.3 compatible)

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello,

as ESRI is getting ready for the ArcGIS 10.1 release with native LAS support (unfortunately no LAZ yet), the LAStools LiDAR processing toolbox is getting fancier. No need to buy the 10.1 upgrade when you use ArcGIS with the LAStools LiDAR processing toolbox as this one will already work with ArcGIS 9.3.

I have added support for lasmerge, lassplit, las2iso, and a special variant of lasheight that allows you to classify points based on their height above the ground. The latter is especially useful if you need to disinguish between vegetation (low,mid,high) and high and low noise points.

I also fixed some minor toolbox bugs that were inconvenient because it was sometimes not possible to select the output file. Attached some screen shots of the toolbox and a few individual tools as seen through the ESRI toolbox interface.

Cheers,

Martin @lastools

[Alejandro Hinojosa]

Martin, that is wonderful. You are our Lidar/LAS saint.

Thanks
Alejandro

2012/5/22 Martin Isenburg <martin....@gmail.com>:

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[Martin Isenburg]

Hello,

over the long weekend the ArcGIS toolbox got another overhaul and
several new features are supported now. In addition I added some
documentation for all the input and output parameters and options for
each tool in the toolbox.

Also ... I received several questions about the required version to
use the LAStools ArcGIS toolbox. There is no need to wait for the 10.1
version of ArcGIS. The toolbox will immediately work with version 9.3
and 10.0 of ArcGIS and because neither the scripts nor the toolbox are
"protected" in any way you can even customize the toolbox interface
further if you know your way around python scripting and the LAStools
command line options.

Below a few more screen shots from the toolbox tools.

Regards,

Martin @LAStools

[coni99]

I think I found a bug in the this toolbox.. blast2dem -> step -> 0.2
doesn't work.. I think arcgis or python (?) is using numbers with
comma rather then a dot.. this should apply to any other tool within
the toolbox..

[Wheeler, Rick]

Hi Chris,

 

The toolbox is included with the lastools distribution zip file.

 

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/download/

 

When you unzip the lastools.zip file you get the following folders:

 

 

In the ArcGIS_toolbox folder you will find the toolbox.

 

 

In ArcMap you can the add the toolbox named LAStool.tbx by pointing to the file.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Rick A. Wheeler

GeoSpatial Data/Systems Specialist

College of the North Atlantic(CNA)

GeoSpatial Research Facility(GRF)

 

From: last...@googlegroups.com [mailto:last...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: June 7, 2012 9:15 PM
To: last...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [LAStools] ArcGIS LiDAR processing toolbox (9.3 compatible)

 

Hi There,

 

Where does one download the toolbox from?

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello Ben,

I have seen three common mistakes in the "installation" of the
LAStools toolbox. Guessing from the error message I would say that
fixing one of them should fix it

(1) Do not move or copy the "LAStools.tbx" from its original
location ./lastools/ArcGIS_toolbox/LAStools.tbx where it is after
unzipping the lastools.zip distribution. Instead, import the
"LAStools.tbx" at its original location using the "add Toolbox"
mechanism. To get to this location you may have to make a "folder
connection" to the place where you unzipped lastools.zip to.

(2) Do not move the ./lastools/ArcGIS_toolbox/scripts or the ./
lastools/bin or the folder. The relative path between the ArcGIS
toolbox and the LAStools binaries needs to be preserved.

(3) It it important that there is no space (e.g. " ") in full name of
your LAStools folder path (because of the python scripts). This is
okay:
C:\lastools
C:\LiDAR\lastools
C:\LiDAR\kickass_tools\lastools

This is NOT okay:
C:\Documents and Settings\isenburg\lastools
C:\Documents and Settings\isenburg\My Documents\ArcGIS\lastools
C:\Program Files\lastools

I'll add that info to the README.txt of the next Release.

Regards,

Martin @rapidlasso

On Jul 24, 10:06 pm, Ben Clark <bizz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to run any of the scripts in ArcMap 10 I get the following:
>
> Executing: lasview
> M:\LPR\0407_02_span_diff_gda94_ahd09_p0.0400_r0.645_h-2.420_ground_height_classify.asc
> 2000000 all default # # true
> Start Time: Wed Jul 25 14:36:25 2012
> Running script lasview...
> Starting lasview ...
> Cannot find .\lastools in at C:\\bin
> <type 'exceptions.SystemExit'>: 1
> Failed to execute (lasview).
> Failed at Wed Jul 25 14:36:25 2012 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
>
> Any help would be appreciated.