Setting up ArcGIS Pro and Basic Lidar Processing (Chapters 10-14)

Section 3 (Chapters 10-14) uses the data downloaded in Chapter 7. Locating Lidar Data and Chapter 8. Lidar and the National Map Viewer to introduce users of this manual to setting up ArcGIS Pro® for lidar data, basics on tools that become enabled when lidar data are added to a project and some basic processing of lidar data. Specifically, Chapter 10. Setting up ArcGIS Pro for Lidar Data demonstrates the difference between a map template (2D) and a map scene (3D) for lidar data. Chapter 11. Exploring LAS Dataset Properties explorers the metadata that displays once lidar data are added to a project and where this metadata can be viewed. Chapter 12. Introducing the LAS Dataset Toolbars introduces the shortcut tools that become automatically enabled when lidar data are added to a project. Because lidar data are large datasets, when downloaded for a specific area, you are downloading several datasets, labeled as separate “tiles”. Chapter 13. Combining Tiles into One .lasd Dataset demonstrates how to create one dataset from multiple lidar tiles. The final chapter in this section, Chapter 14. Adding Tiles to an Existing .lasd Dataset, demonstrates how to add one or more additional lidar tiles to an existing dataset.