lidR (version 1.4.2)

catalog: Build a catalog of las tiles/files

Description

Build a LAScatalog object from a folder name. A catalog is the representation of a set of las files. A computer cannot load all the data at the same time. A catalog is a simple way to manage all the file sequentially reading only the headers.

Usage

catalog(folder, ...)

Arguments

folder

string. The path of a folder containing a set of .las files

Extra parameters to list.files. Typically `recursive = TRUE`.

Value

A LAScatalog object

See Also

LAScatalog-class plot catalog_apply catalog_queries