A LAS object contains the data and the header read in a .las file and additional values computed on the fly during loading.
data
data.table. a table representing the LAS data
header
list. A list of information contained in the las file header.
A LAS
object contains a data.table
in the slot @data
with
the data read from a .las
file and other information computed during
data loading. The fields read from the las file are named:
X Y Z
Intensity
ReturnNumber
NumberOfReturns
ScanDirectionFlag
EdgeOfFlightline
Classification
ScanAngle
UserData
PointSourceID
3 other fields can be computed is desired:
slot @data
:
pulseID
: a unique identifying number for each pulse so the
beam origin of each point is known (see laspulse)
flightlineID
: a unique identifying number for the flightline
so the flightline origin of each point is known (see lasflightline)
color
: the hexadecimal name of the color of the point if R, G and B
fields exist (see lascolor)
A LAS
object also contains a slot @header
which contains the
header of the .las
file. See the ASPRS documentation for the
LAS file format
for more information.