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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'lidR: Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications'
version: 4.3.2
doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112061
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lidR
abstract: Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) interface for data manipulation
  and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area
  based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from
  geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.
authors:
- family-names: Roussel
  given-names: Jean-Romain
  email: info@r-lidar.com
- family-names: Auty
  given-names: David
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Roussel
    given-names: Jean-Romain
    email: info@r-lidar.com
  - family-names: Auty
    given-names: David
  - family-names: Coops
    given-names: Nicholas C.
  - family-names: Tompalski
    given-names: Piotr
  - family-names: Goodbody
    given-names: Tristan R.H.
  - family-names: Meador
    given-names: Andrew Sánchez
  - family-names: Bourdon
    given-names: Jean-François
  - family-names: Boissieu
    given-names: Florian
    name-particle: de
  - family-names: Achim
    given-names: Alexis
  journal: Remote Sensing of Environment
  volume: '251'
  year: '2020'
  issn: 0034-4257
  doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112061
  url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112061
  start: '112061'
repository: https://cranhaven.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR
commit: 1e8c31d50c3fc071e1ebfa5be7232363eb801e8b
url: https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR
date-released: '2026-06-09'
contact:
- family-names: Roussel
  given-names: Jean-Romain
  email: info@r-lidar.com
references:
- type: manual
  title: Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications
  authors:
  - family-names: Roussel
    given-names: Jean-Romain
  - family-names: Auty
    given-names: David
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 4.3.2
  url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=lidR