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readLASheader

Read a .las or .laz file header

Description

Reads a .las or .laz file header into an object of class LASheader. This function strictly reads the header while the function readLAS can alter the header to fit the actual data loaded.

Usage

readLASheader(file)

Arguments

file

characters. Path to one file.

Value

A LASheader object

Examples

LASfile <- system.file("extdata", "Megaplot.laz", package="lidR")
header = readLASheader(LASfile)

print(header)
plot(header)

## Not run: 
plot(header, mapview = TRUE)
## End(Not run)

lidR

Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

v3.1.2

GPL-3

Authors

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())

Initial release

2021-03-11