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![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jean-Romain/storage/master/README/lidr-ban.png)<br/>

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R package for Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

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* Development of the `lidR` package between 2015 and 2018 was made possible thanks to the financial support of the [AWARE project (NSERC CRDPJ 462973-14)](http://aware.forestry.ubc.ca/); grantee [Prof Nicholas Coops](http://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/nicholas-coops/).
* Development of the `lidR` package between 2018 and 2019 was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs of Québec.

# Key features
:book: Read the [Wiki pages](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki) to get started with the lidR package.

- [Read and write .las and .laz files](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Plot 3D LiDAR data](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Area-based approach using any set of metrics](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Individual tree segmentation](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Manage and process a catalog of tiles](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Extract a set of ground plot inventories](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Compute a digital canopy model](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Compute a digital terrain model](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [Normalize a point cloud](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)
- [And much more...](https://github.com/Jean-Romain/lidR/wiki)

# Some examples
# Key features

<img align="right" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jean-Romain/storage/master/README/point-cloud-rotating.gif">

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plot(las, color = "treeID", colorPalette = col)
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### Continuous dataset processing
### Wall-to-wall dataset processing

<img align="right" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jean-Romain/storage/master/README/catalog-processing.gif">

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* **Windows**: Install [Rtools.exe](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/).
* **Mac**: Install `Xcode` from the Mac App Store.
* **Linux**: Install the R development package, usually called `r-devel` or `r-base-dev`
* **Linux**: Install the following libraries:

```
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev libgeos++-dev libudunits2-dev libproj-dev libx11-dev libgl-dev libglu-dev libfreetype6-dev libv8-3.14-dev libcairo2-dev
```

# Changelog

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