Hi, I'm Antonio 👋

A dreamer with a Ph.D. in ecology-remote sensing

J. Antonio Guzmán Q.

Hi, I'm Antonio 👋

A dreamer with a Ph.D. in ecology-remote sensing

Open Software and Data

rTLS

rTLS is an R package that compiles a series of tools to process and calculate metrics on point clouds derived from terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). This started as a personal hobby, but due to its current use, I decided to formalize their routines.

This package is carried out also by Dr. Arturo Sanchez (University of Alberta) and Ronny Hernandez. The development of rTLS was focused on four major processes applied on point clouds: i) filtering, ii) voxelization and their visualization, iii) point neighborhood features, and iv) data manipulation (e.g., rotation, distance matrices).

Take a look at the last stage of development at github as well as the CRAN repository. A published paper that uses some of the routines from this package can be found in Guzmán et al. 2020.