read ZLAS point geometry?

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03-10-2015 09:22 AM
KevinBell
Occasional Contributor III

Anyone out there reading point geometry out of a zlas (lidar) dataset?  At a first glance it doesn't appear to be accessible in the same way as normal point geometry but i haven't gotten into it yet, so I'm hoping someone can give a head start!

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DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

Assuming you haven't checked the help files

ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)

or Google

KevinBell
Occasional Contributor III

I realize you can do this inside ArcGIS desktop, but as this is the Python section, I assumed that my question would be taken in a pythonic context, but perhaps not, so I'll restate it.

Anyone out there using python to read raw geometry from zlas?  I see liblas and laspy out in the wild, but I've not used them yet.   I'm used to ripping through txt files were I can access x, y, z row by row...

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JohannesBierer
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