Autorenname: Martina

Our open-source tool lasvalidate performs the important task of checking whether LAS/LAZ files contain valid data and comply with specifications. LAS 1.5, released by ASPRS in August 2025, introduced several changes to the format. Therefore, lasvalidate was redesigned and reimplemented to meet these new requirements. The revised lasvalidate64 was released with the latest version (260326). […]

We are pleased to announce the release of las2dem_new64: Since las2dem_new64 is a completely new development, the output is similar to las2dem, but not binary compatible. Therefore, it is being released as a new tool. For a general speed increase and multi-core processing, tiling very large datasets is still recommended. However, las2dem_new64 offers the ability

We are pleased to announce the integration of the universal vector library GDAL into LAStools. In addition to the native SHP (shapefile) reader/writer that LAStools has long offered, the GDAL implementation now also allows LAStools users to read and write vector formats in KML, GeoJSON, GML (Geography Markup Language), GPKG (GeoPackage), and GPX (GPS Exchange Format). The