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Downloads:

21,407

Downloads of v 2023.03.30:

835

Last Update:

17 Apr 2023

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Martin Isenburg

Tags:

lastools lidar laszip geology mapping

LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing

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2023.03.30 | Updated: 17 Apr 2023

Downloads:

21,407

Downloads of v 2023.03.30:

835

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Martin Isenburg

LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2023.03.30

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Martin Isenburg. The inclusion of Martin Isenburg trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Martin Isenburg goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade lastools -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade lastools -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install lastools
  win_chocolatey:
    name: lastools
    version: '2023.03.30'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'lastools' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '2023.03.30'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller lastools
{
    Name     = "lastools"
    Version  = "2023.03.30"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'lastools':
  ensure   => '2023.03.30',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

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Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 17 Apr 2023.

Description

LAStools is a collection of highly efficient, batch-scriptable, multicore command line tools. It includes tools to classify, tile, convert, filter, raster, triangulate, contour, clip, and polygonize LiDAR data (to name just a few functions). All of the tools can also be run via a native GUI and are available as a LiDAR processing toolboxes for ArcGIS versions 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3, for QGIS versions 1.8, 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, or 2.10, and for ERDAS IMAGINE versions 14.0 and 15.1.

LAStools is the fastest and most memory efficient solution for batch-scripted multi-core LiDAR processing and can turn billions of LiDAR points into useful products at blazing speeds and with low memory requirements.

Included in LAStools is the open-source LiDAR compressor, LASzip, which is the de facto industry standard for compressed LiDAR.

License note

There are TWO parts to LAStools. One part is OPEN source (LGPL 2.1). The other part is CLOSED source and requires licensing for most commercial or government use. For education and evaluation purposes you can use and test LAStools as much as you need to.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'  # stop on all errors

$url      = 'https://lastools.github.io/download/LAStools.zip'
$CheckSum = '52589e9d85943173d3f4fe02ce326d96249436914c77991eb2a2ffdea8446eec'

$ZipArgs = @{
   PackageName   = 'lastools'
   Url           = $url
   Checksum      = $CheckSum
   ChecksumType  = 'sha256'
   UnzipLocation = Split-Path (Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)
}

Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @ZipArgs

$exes = Get-ChildItem $ZipArgs.UnzipLocation -filter *.exe -Recurse |select -ExpandProperty fullname
$txts = Get-ChildItem $ZipArgs.UnzipLocation -filter *.txt -Recurse |select -ExpandProperty fullname

foreach ($exe in $exes) {
   if ($txts -notcontains ($exe.replace('.exe', '') + '_README.txt')) {
      New-Item "$exe.ignore" -Type file -Force | Out-Null
   }
}

$GUI = (Get-ChildItem $ZipArgs.UnzipLocation -filter lastool.exe -Recurse).fullname
New-Item "$GUI.gui" -Type file -Force | Out-Null

$ShortcutArgs = @{
   ShortcutFilePath = Join-Path ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop')) 'LASTool.lnk'
   TargetPath = $GUI
}

Install-ChocolateyShortcut @ShortcutArgs
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$packageName = 'lastools'

$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$FolderOfPackage = Split-Path -Parent $toolsDir

$shortcut = Join-Path ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop')) 'LAStool.lnk'
if (Test-Path $shortcut) {
    Write-Verbose 'Found the desktop shortcut. Deleting it...'
    Remove-Item $shortcut
}

# This avoids having to modify uninstall if the zip install file changes names
$installedZipFile = (Get-ChildItem $FolderOfPackage -filter '*.zip.txt').name.trim('.txt')

Uninstall-ChocolateyZipPackage  $packageName $installedZipFile

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Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2024.12.9 2 Friday, December 20, 2024
Waiting for Maintainer
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2024.11.25 6 Monday, December 2, 2024
Waiting for Maintainer
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2023.02.02 203 Saturday, February 18, 2023 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2022.11.28 187 Saturday, December 3, 2022 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2022.06.16 411 Friday, June 24, 2022 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2022.01.07 314 Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.07.20 400 Sunday, August 1, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.06.28 228 Monday, July 12, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.06.11 225 Saturday, June 12, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.04.18 249 Saturday, May 1, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.03.30 211 Saturday, April 3, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2021.01.28 250 Saturday, January 30, 2021 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.12.07 203 Saturday, December 12, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.11.24 211 Friday, November 27, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.10.03 268 Sunday, October 11, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.08.13 247 Friday, August 14, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.06.19 308 Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.05.09 252 Thursday, May 14, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.03.04 311 Sunday, March 8, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.01.31 268 Saturday, February 8, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.01.12 214 Saturday, January 18, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2020.01.02 307 Saturday, January 4, 2020 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.11.27 177 Friday, December 20, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.11.11 186 Friday, November 15, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.10.18 222 Saturday, October 26, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.09.27 170 Saturday, September 28, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.08.12 236 Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.07.28 237 Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.06.25 226 Saturday, June 29, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.06.04 224 Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.05.07 205 Thursday, May 16, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.04.17 205 Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.04.04 205 Monday, April 8, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.03.21 224 Saturday, March 23, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.03.06 215 Saturday, March 16, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.02.21 261 Saturday, February 23, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.01.27 206 Friday, February 8, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.01.14 233 Saturday, January 19, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2019.01.05 260 Sunday, January 6, 2019 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.12.18 244 Saturday, December 29, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.11.19 236 Friday, November 30, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.11.07 243 Friday, November 16, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.09.30 256 Thursday, October 4, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.09.10 259 Thursday, September 13, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.08.12 264 Thursday, August 16, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.07.31 269 Friday, August 3, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.07.06 302 Monday, July 16, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.06.20 312 Friday, June 22, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.05.28 309 Friday, June 15, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.05.20 328 Monday, May 28, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.04.29 323 Friday, May 11, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.04.22 325 Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.04.09 339 Friday, April 13, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.04.03 330 Thursday, April 5, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.03.03 334 Monday, March 12, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2018.02.09 380 Monday, February 12, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.12.28 398 Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.12.15 375 Friday, December 22, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.11.24 372 Monday, December 11, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.09.14 419 Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.07.18 458 Thursday, July 27, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.06.28 384 Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.06.08 381 Monday, June 12, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.05.28 377 Friday, June 2, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.05.11 390 Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.04.25 407 Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.03.30 402 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.03.22 419 Friday, March 24, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.03.12 365 Thursday, March 16, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2017.02.02 424 Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2016.11.14 439 Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Approved
LAStools software suite for LiDAR processing 2016.07.30 442 Sunday, August 14, 2016 Approved

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