LiDAR file Processing in R, C#, MS-DOS, ArcGIS & LAStools

LiDAR files always comes in .LAS or .LAZ format. These are some of LiDAR files out of 2548 LiDAR files. LiDAR files are the point files. The first question comes to an user's mind How to see the coverage of each of the LiDAR files?

Now open an ArcMAP Document-- Open ArctoolBox --Click on 3D Analyst tools --Click on Conversion -- Click on From File -- Double click on Point File Information

Once the geoprocessing completes then you will get a polygon shapefile in a Table of content of your ArcMAP document.

More Closer look of these LiDAR tiles

If you open an attribute table of this polygon shapefile then you will find the LAS file names are associated with each of these LiDAR tiles.  The attribute table will going to show LiDAR file Names, Number of points in each LiDAR files, Average Point spacing, Lowest and Highest Elevation.

Let's say if i want to get all the LiDAR files with in the red boundary of a project area in a separate folder. Then, First we need to select the attributes with in the red boundary and export the selected rows in a separate shapefile.

Export these selected attributes into a text file and open in a textpad. Now Please refer to "Copy out selected LiDAR files into a different folder in R"