lidR (version 2.0.0)

area: Surface covered by a LAS* object.

Description

Surface covered by a LAS* object. For LAS point clouds it is computed based on the convex hull of the points. For a LAScatalog it is computed as the sum of the bounding boxes of the files. For overlapping tiles the value may be larger than the total covered area because some regions are sampled twice.

Usage

area(x, ...)

# S4 method for LAS area(x, ...)

# S4 method for LAScatalog area(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of the class LAS*

...

unused

Value

numeric. The area of the object computed in the same units as the coordinate reference system