Useful Links

This page lists software and web pages that you may find useful. Obviously plenty of other software exists and may be useful, but these are some of the ones we know of and have found useful.

ARSF-relevant

• ​Main ARSF home page This is the home page for the overall ARSF facility (not just the data processing part)
• ​NERC Earth Observation Data Centre The archive of ARSF data is publicly available here (after registration)
• ​Natural Environment Research Council NERC is the funding body for ARSF
• ​ARSF Tools on GitHub A collection of tools for working with ARSF data (including reading LiDAR data in LAS 1.3 format)

LiDAR

• ​LAG Github page for our in-house LiDAR viewer
• ​LASTools Toolbox for processing of LiDAR data (open source and commercial components, source available from ​GitHub)
• ​LibLAS C/C++ library for reading/writing LAS files
• ​OPALS Software for processing discrete and full waveform LiDAR data (commercial, academic licenses available)
• ​SPDLib Open source library for storing and processing discrete and full waveform LiDAR data. Supports reading/writing LAS and ASCII files.
• ​SPD 3D Points Viewer Tool for 3D visualisation of LiDAR data in SPD format.
• ​Faisdodo An open-source IDL reader/writer for LAS files
• ​plasio Online LAS file viewer (​source code)
• ​Lidarview Another online LAS file viewer

Hyperspectral

• ​APL Github page for our in-house hyperspectral processing code
• ​ATCOR Program for atmospheric correction of spectral remote sensing data

Misc

• ​ENVI Commercial geospatial image viewer
• ​TuiView Open source geospatial image viewer, supports viewing spectral profiles
• ​GDAL Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. An open source library for reading/writing common raster formats. Also provides a number of command line ​utilities for converting file formats, reprojecting data, creating mosaics etc.