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read.lasheader

Read header from a .las or .laz file

Description

Reads header from .las or .laz files according to LAS specifications and returns a list labeled according to LAS specifications. See the ASPRS documentation for the LAS file format.

Usage

read.lasheader(file)

Arguments

file

filepath character string to the .las or .laz file

Value

A list

Examples

lazfile   <- system.file("extdata", "example.las", package="rlas")
lasheader <- read.lasheader(lazfile)

rlas

Read and Write 'las' and 'laz' Binary File Formats Used for Remote Sensing Data

v1.4.0

GPL-3

Authors

Jean-Romain Roussel [aut, cre, cph], Florian De Boissieu [aut, ctb] (Enable the support of .lax file and extra byte attributes), Martin Isenburg [cph] (Is the author of the LASlib and LASzip libraries), David Auty [ctb] (Reviewed the documentation), Pierrick Marie [ctb] (Helped to compile LASlib code in R), Tiago de Conto [ctb] (Implemented the -thin_with_voxel filter method)

Initial release

2021-03-21