Statistics Extractor Property Page

*This feature is available in Basic license level and above for LP360.

About the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor

The Point Cloud Statistics Extractor point cloud task allows you to summarize data within point clouds. You can summarize information for individual files or as a group defined by geometry such as polygons. The summary information is stored as shapefiles representing the polygon used to produce the summaries, or as a delimited text file. Saving the summary to a shapefile is particularly useful for displaying the results of the summary which can easily reveal trends in the data that is not easily recognized using the raw point cloud. The following describes the different options you can choose when executing the statistics point cloud task.

The Point Cloud Statistics Extractor produces summaries in shapefile format. The summaries are stored in the attribute table, and the geometry used to define the areas for the summaries are saved as the shapes for the file.

How to open the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor Property Page

1. Use the Add Files command to open the LAS files that contain the data you want to use.  

2. Use the Add Task command to create a new point cloud task. When you are selecting a Task Type in the Add Point Cloud Task dialog, select Point Cloud Statistics Extractor. Once you click OK, you should see the unique name that you gave your task selected in the list and the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor property page displayed on the Point Cloud Task tab.

3. Specify the settings for the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor operation in the Properties page that displays.
 

Picture of the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor Property Page

Example of Extracted Statistics

Extracted data (i.e., shapes, and attributes) using the extract by file option

Learn how to modify the source filter

Learn how to group statistics by an attribute

Learn how to extract summaries by las files

Learn how to select header attributes to extract

Learn how to extract various point counts

Learn how to extract point densities, area, and nominal point spacing

Learn how to summarize by individual point attributes

Learn how to specify the extracted statistics output file   Learn how to extract the nominal point spacing