Name: Michael Gerlek
Date registered: March 8, 2011
URL: http://www.flaxen.com
Jul
28
Howard Butler and I will be presenting a talk titled “LiDAR Point Cloud Processing with libPC [sic!] and libLAS” at the FOSS4G conference in September. I’d like to have some sort of lidar / point cloud BOF during the week, be sure and watch for it.
Jul
28
I’m now a Contributing Author for Lidar News, doing a column on open source issues in the lidar / point cloud world. I’ll be covering the usual open source stuff like the cool libraries and apps (liblas, lastools), but also maybe some bits on open standards (las, e57) and the ever-popular “how to do I …
Jun
27
I will be presenting a short overview of the status of open source support for points clouds at the DARPA GRID workshop on June 30th.
Jun
12
I will be at the MapWindow/DotSpatial confernece the week of July 13th. I will be doing two presentations: an invited keynote titled “Working with, and in, the Open Source Community” and I will also be doing a presentation on the state of open source support for lidar and point clouds.
Mar
08
Flaxen Geo is the independent geospatial consulting business started by Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) in 2010. We offer technology advice, software development, and customized training in several technically complex areas including processing and compression of imagery and point cloud (lidar) data sets. Flaxen Geo is a strong proponent of open source software and regularly collaborates …
Feb
28
Together with the CUGOS gang, I’m organizing the 2012 North American OSGeo codesprint, to be held in February at IslandWood right here in the Puget Sound. Come enjoy the beautiful winter weather in the Pacific Northwest for a week of serious open source hacking!