If you are looking for production grade LiDAR data processing software the new release of Merrick’s MARS product is worth your time to investigate. Version 6 has just been released, and I asked an early supporter of this blog, Bill Emison, the Product Manager for the highlights:
- Visualize & process airborne, terrestrial & mobile LiDAR datasets
- Natively supports LiDAR (LAS), imagery (RGB & hyperspectral) and GIS (vector) datasets
- Support for 32-bit & 64-bit Windows operating systems
- Multiprocessing allows efficient utilization of PC hardware
- 3D coordinate transformation tools provided by Blue Marble Geographics
- Support for LizardTech’s LiDAR Compressor technology
- Robust data visualization capabilities
- Automated & manual data classification tools
- DEM & topographic data generation functions
- LiDAR data accuracy compliance reporting
- Batch data import/export functions
- Support for LiDAR data in Lat/Lon (geographic) format
I know there are many man-years of effort that have gone into the development of this software. The multi-platform support is of particular interest with the surge in mobile scanning.
