Export Coordinates from LAS Files to CSV – Conversion Guide

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Is there any tool available for extracting the X, Y and Z coordinates from a .las file and exporting them to a .csv or similar file?

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las2txt from liblas.org may do what you want:

http://www.liblas.org/utilities/las2txt.html

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[GIS] Converting las files from version 1.2 to 1.3

The only difference between LAS 1.2 and LAS 1.3 is the ability to store returns together with a references to the full waveform data. This ONLY is the case for point types 4 and 5. Most of the time people use point types 1 or 3. In this case (if you use point types 0, 1, 2, or 3) there is no difference between LAS 1.2 and LAS 1.3. If you need to "upconvert" from LAS 1.2 to LAS 1.3 you can do this with the free and open source las2las tool of LAStools.

Just follow this example (for LAS 1.4) but leave out the command that changes the point type.

Exporting LiDAR Data – How to Efficiently Write LiDAR Data to CSV Using data.table::fwrite in R

Use

writelas2csv <- function(x,y) {
  data.table::fwrite(payload(x),y)
}

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