I’m a farmer in Mississippi, I went to college and studied geospatial sciences and have worked a lot with Spatial data and ArcGIS in particular. We recently have discovered our drainage program on the farm needed to be vastly improved. So I started looking into running elevation data and generating some drainage ditches that our guidance enabled tractors could follow. Along the way I discovered that Lidar data had been ran in our area. Excited by this I worked on getting this data down to a usable form (.csv) in order to put it into a certain ag drainage program that I use. I never studied Lidar much in college as it was still new and could use some tips on some better/quicker ways to process this data. Here’s my process:
1. Las to raster
2. Raster to point
3. Merge raster (if field is in between las datasets)
4. Clip to field boundary
5. Add geometry attributes. (To get xy values)
6. Copy rows (to get a csv file)
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Robert
