| normalize_intensity {lidR} | R Documentation |
Normalize intensity values using multiple methods.
normalize_intensity(las, algorithm)
las |
An object of class LAS or LAScatalog. |
algorithm |
an intensity normalizaton algorithm. |
Returns an object of class LAS. The attribute 'Intensity' records the normalized intensity. An extra attribute named 'RawIntensity' records the original intensities.
LAScatalogThis section appears in each function that supports a LAScatalog as input.
In lidR when the input of a function is a LAScatalog the
function uses the LAScatalog processing engine. The user can modify the engine options using
the available options. A careful reading of the
engine documentation is recommended before processing LAScatalogs. Each
lidR function should come with a section that documents the supported engine options.
The LAScatalog engine supports .lax files that significantly improve the computation
speed of spatial queries using a spatial index. Users should really take advantage a .lax files,
but this is not mandatory.
Supported processing options for a LAScatalog (in bold). For more details see the
LAScatalog engine documentation:
chunk size: How much data is loaded at once.
chunk buffer: No buffer needed. A buffer of 0 is used and cannot be changed
chunk alignment: Align the processed chunks.
progress: Displays a progression estimation.
output files*: Mandatory because the output is likely to be too big to be returned
in R and needs to be written in las/laz files. Supported templates are {XLEFT}, {XRIGHT},
{YBOTTOM}, {YTOP}, {XCENTER}, {YCENTER} {ID} and, if
chunk size is equal to 0 (processing by file), {ORIGINALFILENAME}.
select: The function will write files equivalent to the original ones. Thus select = "*"
and cannot be changed.
filter: Read only points of interest.
Other normalize:
normalize_height()
# A valid file properly populated
LASfile <- system.file("extdata", "Topography.laz", package="lidR")
las <- readLAS(LASfile)
# pmin = 15 because it is an extremely small file
# strongly decimated to reduce its size. There are
# actually few multiple returns
sensor <- track_sensor(las, Roussel2020(pmin = 15))
# Here the effect is virtually null because the size of
# the sample is too small to notice any effect of range
las <- normalize_intensity(las, range_correction(sensor, Rs = 2000))