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MurrayW

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Point Cloud height above ground
« on: March 18, 2019, 11:24:08 AM »
Hello,

How can I assign height above ground to the MetaShape point cloud?  I have generated a dense point cloud. I have an accurate Lidar DTM. Can I assign DTM value to points? 

In Forestry, LAStools does a process called "normalize" where the ground elevation is subtracted from the Point Cloud elevation so the point cloud represents height above ground - which is the height of trees.  This is an essential step for forestry information from point clouds - can MetaShape produce normalised Point Cloud?

thanks
Murray