Format
ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format
Summary
- Name
- ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format
- Version
- 1.2
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/370
- Format type
-
- GIS
- Image (Raster)
- Disclosure
- Full
- Description
- The Lidar Data Exchange Format is a binary file format for the interchange of LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) optical remote sensing data. Specifications available at http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html
- Release date
- 09 Feb 2008
- Format encoding
- Binary
- File extensions
-
las,laz - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- American Soc. For Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing / American Soc. for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
Relationships
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format 1.2
- Description
- ASCII header: LASF, followed after 20 bytes by version number 1.2
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
4C415346{20}0102{78}[00:99]- Endianness
- Little-endian
Changelog
-
V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
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Added format
ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format 1.2: Partial entry added. Submission from the Geospatial Multistate Access and Preservation Partnership (GeoMAPP).
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Added signature
ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format 1.2: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.