Tag Archive: open source

Jul
28

FOSS4G Conference

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

New Column for Lidar News

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 …

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Mar
08

Flaxen Geo

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 …

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Feb
28

IslandWood Codesprint

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!