Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.
| Version: | 4.2.1 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0), methods | 
| Imports: | classInt, data.table (≥ 1.12.0), glue, grDevices, lazyeval, Rcpp (≥ 1.0.3), rgl, rlas (≥ 1.8.2), sf, stats, stars, terra (≥ 1.5-17), tools, utils | 
| LinkingTo: | BH (≥ 1.72.0), Rcpp, RcppArmadillo | 
| Suggests: | EBImage, future, geometry, gstat, raster, RCSF, RMCC, rjson, mapview, mapedit, progress, sp, testthat (≥ 2.1.0), knitr, rmarkdown | 
| Published: | 2025-06-02 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.lidR | 
| Author: | Jean-Romain Roussel [aut, cre, cph], David Auty [aut, ctb] (Reviews the documentation), Florian De Boissieu [ctb] (Fixed bugs and improved catalog features), Andrew Sánchez Meador [ctb] (Implemented wing2015() for segment_snags()), Bourdon Jean-François [ctb] (Contributed to Roussel2020() for track_sensor()), Gatziolis Demetrios [ctb] (Implemented Gatziolis2019() for track_sensor()), Leon Steinmeier [ctb] (Contributed to parallelization management), Stanislaw Adaszewski [cph] (Author of the C++ concaveman code), Benoît St-Onge [cph] (Author of the 'chm_prep' function) | 
| Maintainer: | Jean-Romain Roussel <info at r-lidar.com> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR/issues | 
| License: | GPL-3 | 
| URL: | https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR | 
| NeedsCompilation: | yes | 
| Citation: | lidR citation info | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| In views: | Spatial | 
| CRAN checks: | lidR results | 
| Reference manual: | lidR.html , lidR.pdf | 
| Vignettes: | 1. LAS formal class (source, R code) 2. LAScatalog formal class (source, R code) 3. LAScatalog processing engine (source, R code) 5. Create a function to process a LAScatalog (source, R code) 4. Speed-up the computations on a LAScatalog (source, R code) | 
| Package source: | lidR_4.2.1.tar.gz | 
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: lidR_4.2.1.zip, r-release: lidR_4.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: lidR_4.2.1.zip | 
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): lidR_4.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): lidR_4.2.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): lidR_4.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): lidR_4.2.1.tgz | 
| Old sources: | lidR archive | 
| Reverse imports: | CspStandSegmentation, dsmSearch, FORTLS, leafR, lidaRtRee, rcaiman, rcontroll, rTLsDeep | 
| Reverse linking to: | CspStandSegmentation | 
| Reverse suggests: | lacunr, rayshader | 
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