Thursday, February 18, 2010

LizardTech - LiDAR File Compression

“LiDAR Compressor compresses your LiDAR data to the industry standard MrSID format, trusted as a raster format by geospatial professionals since 1992 and supported in virtually all GIS applications. With the release of LiDAR Compressor LizardTech unveils a new and improved version of the format, MrSID Generation 4 (MG4). It's still LizardTech and it's still MrSID, so you know you're using the highest quality file format with the most advanced compression technology available. MG4 enables you to view and access your LiDAR data faster.”

LiDAR Compressor costs: 2995$

Source and more information: http://www.lizardtech.com/products/lidar/

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As a cost free alternative you may consider laszip.exe that is part of the LAStools package.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/

It also gets much better compression.

TerraFormatics said...

Thanks for your link, great!!

We will try this program...