This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
This Website Uses Cookies By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Learn MoreThis website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
Home » ASPRS Approves LiDAR Data Exchange Format Standard 06.09.2003
New binary data exchange format is intended to serve as an industry standard for the exchange of lidar data among manufacturers, data providers and end users.
ASPRS announced the approval and official release of the ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format Standard at its recent 69th Annual ASPRS Conference and Exhibition held in Anchorage, Alaska in May. This new binary data exchange format is intended to serve as an industry standard for the exchange of lidar data between various hardware manufacturers, software developers, data providers and end users. It was originally developed by a consortium of industry partners (Z/I Imaging, EnerQuest, Sanborn, US Army Corps of Engineers, Optech and Leica GeoSystems) and is intended to make the exchange, manipulation, analysis and storage of lidar data faster and easier.
The new binary data exchange format is a public binary file format that is a replacement for the proprietary
systems or a generic ASCII file interchange system used by many companies in the past. A problem with
proprietary systems is that data cannot be taken easily from one system or process flow to another and the
file sizes can be extremely large, even for small amounts of data. In addition, a standardized lidar data
format will facilitate the processing, editing and visualization of lidar data in a wide variety of commercial
and proprietary software packages, as well as the efficient exchange of data between data providers and
end-users. The standard is an expandable format, which can be modified to accommodate future develop-
ments of lidar technology. The standard is available at http://www.asprs.org/resources.html, click on
Standards.