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lidar.blocked.LASBlocks

Read and write each block of blocked point cloud data as LAS file

Since R2022a

Description

The LASBlocks object is an adapter that writes blocked point cloud data in LAS format.

When writing to disk, the object creates an individual LAS file for each block and writes point cloud and point attributes data of the corresponding block into a file. The object saves all LAS files in a folder.

The table lists the support that the LASBlocks object has for various blockedPointCloud capabilities.

CapabilitySupport
Data types

struct and pointCloud object

Process blocks in parallel using the apply functionYes

Creation

Description

adapter = lidar.blocked.LASBlocks creates a LASBlocks object that reads and writes blocked point cloud data as LAS files, with one LAS file for each block.

Properties

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Point cloud file format, specified as "las" or "laz".

Data Types: char | string

LAS version, specified as "1.0", "1.1", "1.2", "1.3", or "1.4".

Data Types: string | char

Version History

Introduced in R2022a

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