Processing LiDAR

Looking for alternatives to the lidR R package, for research purposes, plus some resources to start working on it.

• New collection of Jupyter Notebooks enables programmatic access to cloud-hosted USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) LiDAR data: https://opentopography.org/blog/new-collection-jupyter-notebooks-enables-programmatic-access-cloud-hosted-usgs-3d-elevation

• Big Data Geospatial Processing for Massive Aerial LiDAR Datasets https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/4/719 uses Spark

• A guide covering LiDAR including the applications, libraries and tools that will make you better and more efficient with LiDAR development: https://github.com/mikeroyal/LiDAR-Guide

• Learning from LiDAR Data with Deep Learning https://www.strong.io/blog/deep-learning-for-lidar-data

• Forest inventory with high-density UAV-LiDAR: Machine learning approaches for predicting individual tree attributes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105815