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laser canopycover

This module computes canopy cover as the number of point returns in the canopy divided by the total number of points in a voxel.

Must be run using classified, z-normalized las/laz data. The size of the voxel is defined by the output resolution.


laser canopycover [-h] [-o OUTPUT_FILE] [-odir output_directory] [--input-is-list]
  [--tr xres [yres ...]] [--dstnodata value] [--cover-cutoff meters] [--density]
  [--cores CORES] input_files [input_file(s ...]

positional arguments:
  input_file(s)         Input file(s)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output_file OUTPUT_FILE
                        Output file (default: None)
  -odir output_directory, --output_directory output_directory
                        Output data directory. (default: None)
  --input-is-list       Use input file as a list of rasters to merge. (default: False)
  --tr xres yres        Output resolution (default: [1.0, 1.0])
  --dstnodata value     Output nodata value (default: -9999)
  --cover-cutoff meters
                          Points above this height are considered canopy. (default: 4)
  --only-first-returns  Compute cover from first returns instead of all returns. (default: False)
  --cores CORES         Number of processing threads (default: 4)
  --use-tile-bb         Export raster without tile buffer. (default: False)
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