LidarFormat

LidarFormat is an open source library for efficiently handling 3D point clouds with a variable number of attributes at runtime.

Homepage:

https://github.com/IGNF/lidarformat

Copyright:

Institut Geographique National & CEMAGREF (2009)

Original Author:

Adrien Chauve

Contributors:

Nicolas David, Olivier Tournaire, Bruno Vallet, Mathieu Brédif



LidarFormat is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

LidarFormat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
License along with LidarFormat.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Installation:

LidarFormat uses cmake. To build under Linux, go to the root of the repository and type:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

If everything went well, you can install the library with

sudo make install

which will make your library available to other C++ project. To use LidarFormat in another cmake project, add

find_package(LidarFormat)
include_directories(${LidarFormat_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_library(myLib ...)
target_link_libraries(myLib LidarFormat ...)

to your CMakeLists.txt