ALS data preprocessing

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This workflow proposes R functions for checking and preprocessing Airborne Laser Scanning (lidar remote sensing) data. It is based on functions from R package lidR, and it includes the following steps:

check the content of one file,
create images and statistics from multiple files,
compute digital surface models.

The following files are provided:

Rmarkdown source,
ALS data preprocessing tutorial in html,
a bibliography file
datasets required to run the source code are also available on the repository.

Changelog

May 24, 2022: switch to terra and sf to comply with new version of lidR and lidaRtRee
Dec. 27, 2021: future.apply package used for parallelization
Sept. 21, 2021: first release