On Thursday 10 of June 2010 00:14:29 Rich Shepard wrote: > I thought that I could use LiDAR data within grass, but the 6.4 > r.in.gdal man page does not include that format. Is this the wrong module > for these data? > > There are two topographic quadrangle files that cover the project > drainage basin, and the data DVDs cost $200 each. I want to make high > resolution DEMs of the project basin and try to determine flood elevations > for different storm events from those. According to the data source, "All > data are format specific to ESRI GIS format. Data must be viewed using > specialty software capable of viewing .shp, geotif, and ESRI grid > formats." > > I suppose that r.in.gdal will import the .shp files. I've not worked > with geotif or ESRI grid formats so any experiences of you folks with > these formats and LiDAR data will be much appreciated.
I am sending you also off-line some work I've done and includes some notes on Geotiff's (quite useful for me at the time). Results not include (due to external forces :-p). Hope it is worth a little of bit of something to you as well... Cheers, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
