= 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 == * [http://arsf.nerc.ac.uk/ Main ARSF home page] This is the home page for the overall ARSF facility (not just the data processing part) * [http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/?option NERC Earth Observation Data Centre] The archive of ARSF data is publicly available here (after registration) * [http://fsf.nerc.ac.uk/ NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility] * [http://www.nerc.ac.uk/ Natural Environment Research Council] NERC is the funding body for ARSF * [https://github.com/pmlrsg/arsf_tools ARSF Tools on GitHub] A collection of tools for working with ARSF data (including reading LiDAR data in LAS 1.3 format) == LiDAR == '''Software''' * [https://github.com/arsf/lag LAG] Github page for our in-house LiDAR viewer * [http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/ LAStools] Toolbox for processing of LiDAR data (open source and commercial components, source available from [https://github.com/LAStools/LAStools GitHub]) * [http://pythonhosted.org/laspy/ Laspy] A Python library for working with LAS files * [http://geo.tuwien.ac.at/opals/html/index.html OPALS] Software for processing discrete and full waveform LiDAR data (commercial, academic licenses available) * [http://www.spdlib.org/doku.php SPDLib] Open source library for storing and processing discrete and full waveform LiDAR data. Supports reading/writing LAS and ASCII files. * [https://bitbucket.org/petebunting/spd-3d-points-viewer SPD 3D Points Viewer] Tool for 3D visualisation of LiDAR data in SPD format. * [https://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas] An open-source IDL reader/writer for LAS files * [http://www.liblas.org/ LibLAS] C/C++ library for reading/writing LAS files (largely replaced with LASlib from LAStools and laspy) * [http://plas.io/ plasio] Online LAS file viewer ([https://github.com/verma/plasio source code]) * [http://lidarview.com/ Lidarview] Another online LAS file viewer * [http://www.fugroviewer.com/ fugroviewer LiDAR viewer] (requires registration) * [http://fityk.nieto.pl/ fityk] curve fitting tool (useful for full waveform LiDAR data). Free for version 0.9.8 and older. '''Tutorials''' * [wiki:Downloads/Tutorials ARSF lidar tutorials]. Covers creating a DEM and extracting waveforms. * [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/04/20/tutorial-quality-checking/ LAStools tutorial part 1] on quality checking * [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/10/13/tutorial-lidar-preparation/ LAStools tutorial part 2] on lidar preparation * [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/10/20/tutorial-derivative-production/ LAStools tutorial part 3] on DEM generation * [http://docs.qgis.org/2.6/en/docs/training_manual/forestry/basic_lidar.html Create a DEM using LAStool in QGIS] tutorial on using LAStools to create a DEM within QGIS * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/spdlib/files/Tutorials/ SPDLib Tutorials] Links to download data and workshop material for courses on SPDLib. Cover creating a DSM/DTM and processing using a HPC. '''Other''' * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lastools/ LAStools Google groups] Forum for discussion of LAStools == Hyperspectral == '''Software''' * [https://github.com/arsf/apl APL] Github page for our in-house hyperspectral processing code * [http://www.rese.ch/products/atcor/atcor4/ ATCOR] Program for atmospheric correction of spectral remote sensing data * [https://bitbucket.org/arsf/tuiview TuiView (ARSF Fork)] Open source geospatial image viewer, supports viewing spectral profiles and opening zipped bil files (as provided with ARSF deliveries). ARSF fork can also read level1b files. Original version available from [https://bitbucket.org/chchrsc/tuiview here] '''Tutorials''' * [http://fromgistors.blogspot.com/2014/10/supervised-classification-of-hyperspectral.html Hyperspectral classification in QGIS] Blog post describing supervised classification of hyperspectral data using QGIS. == Digital Photography == * [http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ExifTool] for reading tags in RCD tiff images. == General == '''Software''' * [http://www.exelisvis.co.uk/ProductsServices/ENVIProducts.aspx ENVI] Commercial geospatial image viewer. * [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL] Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. An open source library for reading/writing common raster formats. Also provides a number of command line [http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html utilities] for converting file formats, reprojecting data, creating mosaics etc. * [http://grass.fbk.eu/ GRASS] Open source GIS (powerful and full featured, but with a steep learning curve). * [http://qgis.org/en/site/ QGIS] Open source GIS package, latest version provides interface to GRASS tools. * [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] Windows installation package for a number of open source remote sensing and GIS software packages (including GDAL, GRASS and QGIS). * [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4 cartographic projections library] useful for re-projecting point data but can be difficult to use.