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  las2tin:

  reads LIDAR data in LAS/LAZ/ASCII format and creates a TIN. It
  is possible to triangulate only certain points like only first
  returns (-first_only) or only last returns (-last_only). One
  can also only triangulate only points that have a particular
  classification. The option (-keep_class 2 3) will triangulate
  only the points of classification 2 or 3.

  The output of large TIN triangles along the convex hull of the
  point cloud can be suppressed with the '-concavity 10' option.
  This will recursively remove all triangles with an edge length
  of 10 units that are adjacent to the boundary. The default is
  a concavity of 50 meter. Use '-concavity 0' to disable this. The
  value is always assumed to be meters and will be multipled with
  3.28 for LAS/LAZ files where x and y are known to be in feet.

  It is also possible to compute histograms over the length of
  edges with '-histo' or '-histo_only'. As arguments this command
  takes first what should be measured: either each 'edge_length'
  or the 'min_edge_length' or the 'max_edge_length' around each
  vertex or the 'min_max_edge_length_diff' around each vertex. The
  last argument specifies the bin size of the histogram.
 
  Closed breaklines can be supplied for hydro-enforcment of
  lakes, for example ('-lakes lakes.shp', '-lakes hydro.txt')
  but they must form proper closed polygons and have elevations.

  Hard breaklines can be integrated for improving the TIN before
  it is sampled with ('-creeks roads.shp', '-creeks creeks.txt')
  and while they can be open they must also have elevations.

  Please license from martin.isenburg@rapidlasso.com to use las2tin
  commercially.

  For updates check the website or join the LAStools mailing list.

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  Martin @lastools

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example usage:

>> las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -histo_only edge_length 0.1

computes an edge length histogram for the last-return TIN

>> las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -histo_only min_edge_length 0.1

computes a histogram of the shortest edge length found around
each vertex in the last-return TIN

>> las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -histo_only max_edge_length 0.5

computes a histogram of the longest edge length found around
each vertex in the last-return TIN

>> las2tin -i *.las

triangulates all files individually and stores the resulting
TINs in ESRI's Shapefile format in files with the same name but
different endings.

>> las2tin -i *.las -concavity 25

same as above but dropping large triangles along the boundary ...

>> las2tin -i lidar.las -o tin.shp

triangulates all points and stores the resulting TIN in ESRI's Shapefile
format.

>> las2tin -i lidar.las -o tin.obj

triangulates all points and stores the resulting TIN in OBJ format.

>> las2tin -i lidar.laz -o triangles.txt -last_only

triangulates all last return points from lidar.laz and stores them
as a list of triangles in ASCII format in triangles.txt.

>> las2tin -i lidar.laz -o tin.shp -keep_class 2 3

triangulates all points classfied as 2 or 3 from lidar.laz and stores
the resulting TIN in ESRI's Shapefile format to file tin.shp.

>> las2tin -i lidar1.las lidar2.laz lidar3.laz lidar4.las -merged -o tin.shp

triangulates the combined points from the four LAS and LAZ files and
stores the resulting TIN in ESRI's Shapefile format to file tin.shp.

for more info:

D:\LAStools\bin>las2tin -h
Filter points based on their coordinates.
  -keep_tile 631000 4834000 1000 (ll_x ll_y size)
  -keep_circle 630250.00 4834750.00 100 (x y radius)
  -keep_xy 630000 4834000 631000 4836000 (min_x min_y max_x max_y)
  -drop_xy 630000 4834000 631000 4836000 (min_x min_y max_x max_y)
  -keep_x 631500.50 631501.00 (min_x max_x)
  -drop_x 631500.50 631501.00 (min_x max_x)
  -drop_x_below 630000.50 (min_x)
  -drop_x_above 630500.50 (max_x)
  -keep_y 4834500.25 4834550.25 (min_y max_y)
  -drop_y 4834500.25 4834550.25 (min_y max_y)
  -drop_y_below 4834500.25 (min_y)
  -drop_y_above 4836000.75 (max_y)
  -keep_z 11.125 130.725 (min_z max_z)
  -drop_z 11.125 130.725 (min_z max_z)
  -drop_z_below 11.125 (min_z)
  -drop_z_above 130.725 (max_z)
  -keep_xyz 620000 4830000 100 621000 4831000 200 (min_x min_y min_z max_x max_y max_z)
  -drop_xyz 620000 4830000 100 621000 4831000 200 (min_x min_y min_z max_x max_y max_z)
Filter points based on their return number.
  -first_only -keep_first -drop_first
  -last_only -keep_last -drop_last
  -drop_first_of_many -drop_last_of_many
  -keep_middle -drop_middle
  -keep_return 1 2 3
  -drop_return 3 4
  -keep_single -drop_single
  -keep_double -drop_double
  -keep_triple -drop_triple
  -keep_quadruple -drop_quadruple
  -keep_quintuple -drop_quintuple
Filter points based on the scanline flags.
  -drop_scan_direction 0
  -scan_direction_change_only
  -edge_of_flight_line_only
Filter points based on their intensity.
  -keep_intensity 20 380
  -drop_intensity_below 20
  -drop_intensity_above 380
  -drop_intensity_between 4000 5000
Filter points based on their classification.
  -keep_class 1 3 7
  -drop_class 4 2
  -drop_synthetic -keep_synthetic
  -drop_keypoint -keep_keypoint
  -drop_withheld -keep_withheld
  -drop_overlap -keep_overlap
Filter points based on their user data.
  -keep_user_data 1
  -drop_user_data 255
  -keep_user_data_between 10 20
  -drop_user_data_below 1
  -drop_user_data_above 100
  -drop_user_data_between 10 40
Filter points based on their point source ID.
  -keep_point_source 3
  -keep_point_source_between 2 6
  -drop_point_source 27
  -drop_point_source_below 6
  -drop_point_source_above 15
  -drop_point_source_between 17 21
Filter points based on their scan angle.
  -keep_scan_angle -15 15
  -drop_abs_scan_angle_above 15
  -drop_scan_angle_below -15
  -drop_scan_angle_above 15
  -drop_scan_angle_between -25 -23
Filter points based on their gps time.
  -keep_gps_time 11.125 130.725
  -drop_gps_time_below 11.125
  -drop_gps_time_above 130.725
  -drop_gps_time_between 22.0 48.0
Filter points based on their RGB/NIR channel.
  -keep_RGB_red 1 1
  -keep_RGB_green 30 100
  -keep_RGB_blue 0 0
  -keep_RGB_nir 64 127
Filter points based on their wavepacket.
  -keep_wavepacket 0
  -drop_wavepacket 3
Filter points with simple thinning.
  -keep_every_nth 2
  -keep_random_fraction 0.1
  -thin_with_grid 1.0
  -thin_with_time 0.001
Transform coordinates.
  -translate_x -2.5
  -scale_z 0.3048
  -rotate_xy 15.0 620000 4100000 (angle + origin)
  -translate_xyz 0.5 0.5 0
  -translate_then_scale_y -0.5 1.001
  -switch_x_y -switch_x_z -switch_y_z
  -clamp_z_below 70.5
  -clamp_z 70.5 72.5
Transform raw xyz integers.
  -translate_raw_z 20
  -translate_raw_xyz 1 1 0
  -clamp_raw_z 500 800
Transform intensity.
  -scale_intensity 2.5
  -translate_intensity 50
  -translate_then_scale_intensity 0.5 3.1
  -clamp_intensity 0 255
  -clamp_intensity_above 255
Transform scan_angle.
  -scale_scan_angle 1.944445
  -translate_scan_angle -5
  -translate_then_scale_scan_angle -0.5 2.1
Change the return number or return count of points.
  -repair_zero_returns
  -set_return_number 1
  -change_return_number_from_to 2 1
  -set_number_of_returns 2
  -change_number_of_returns_from_to 0 2
Modify the classification.
  -set_classification 2
  -change_classification_from_to 2 4
  -classify_z_below_as -5.0 7
  -classify_z_above_as 70.0 7
  -classify_z_between_as 2.0 5.0 4
  -classify_intensity_above_as 200 9
  -classify_intensity_below_as 30 11
  -change_extended_classification_from_to 6 46
Change the flags.
  -set_withheld_flag 0
  -set_synthetic_flag 1
  -set_keypoint_flag 0
  -set_extended_overlap_flag 1
Modify the extended scanner channel.
  -set_extended_scanner_channel 2
Modify the user data.
  -set_user_data 0
  -change_user_data_from_to 23 26
Modify the point source ID.
  -set_point_source 500
  -change_point_source_from_to 1023 1024
  -copy_user_data_into_point_source
  -bin_Z_into_point_source 200
  -bin_abs_scan_angle_into_point_source 2
Transform gps_time.
  -translate_gps_time 40.50
  -adjusted_to_week
  -week_to_adjusted 1671
Transform RGB colors.
  -scale_rgb_down (by 256)
  -scale_rgb_up (by 256)
Supported LAS Inputs
  -i lidar.las
  -i lidar.laz
  -i lidar1.las lidar2.las lidar3.las -merged
  -i *.las - merged
  -i flight0??.laz flight1??.laz
  -i terrasolid.bin
  -i esri.shp
  -i nasa.qi
  -i lidar.txt -iparse xyzti -iskip 2 (on-the-fly from ASCII)
  -i lidar.txt -iparse xyzi -itranslate_intensity 1024
  -lof file_list.txt
  -stdin (pipe from stdin)
  -rescale 0.01 0.01 0.001
  -rescale_xy 0.01 0.01
  -rescale_z 0.01
  -reoffset 600000 4000000 0
Fast AOI Queries for LAS/LAZ with spatial indexing LAX files
  -inside min_x min_y max_x max_y
  -inside_tile ll_x ll_y size
  -inside_circle center_x center_y radius
Supported LAS Outputs
  -o lidar.las
  -o lidar.laz
  -o xyzta.txt -oparse xyzta (on-the-fly to ASCII)
  -o terrasolid.bin
  -o nasa.qi
  -odir C:\data\ground (specify output directory)
  -odix _classified (specify file name appendix)
  -ocut 2 (cut the last two characters from name)
  -olas -olaz -otxt -obin -oqfit (specify format)
  -stdout (pipe to stdout)
  -nil    (pipe to NULL)
LAStools (by martin@rapidlasso.com) version 150905 (commercial)
usage:
las2tin -i *.las
las2tin -i *.las -concavity 25 -oobj
las2tin -i lidar.las -o tin.shp
las2tin -i lidar.laz -first_only -o mesh.obj
las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -o indices_only.txt
las2tin -i lidar.las -last_only -keep_class 2 6 8 -o tin.shp
las2tin -i lidar.laz -keep_class 8
las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -histo_only edge_length 0.1
las2tin -i lidar.laz -last_only -histo_only min_edge_length 0.1
las2tin -h

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if you find bugs let me (martin.isenburg@rapidlasso.com) know.
