MG4 decoder to LAS for client or other parties

[ptmi]

Hi,

I'm trying the LizardTech LiDAR Compressor, and it works great.

We would very like to have this to compress the huge LAS files. And thought that it might be also a great benefit for us if we able to send the compression to the client. It's really save the disk space.

But I wonder if we sent the .sid files to the client, will they be able to decompressing it without have to install/having LiDAR Compressor? I've figured that copying the lidardecode.exe along with the files wont help. Tried to copied all the installer folders but doesn't help either. :?

I think it would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Prim.

[rparker]

You can include just the lidardecode.exe file and perhaps also a batch file to make it easy for the client to decode the files to las again.

Here is a sample batch script to include in the same folder as the MrSID files:

FOR %a IN (*.sid) DO lidardecode.exe -i %a -o %~dpa%~na.las -of las12

If you save the command above in a batch file (file.bat) then you can have the client click on the batch file to decode all MrSID files.

To decode just one file, you might have the client drag and drop the MrSID file on a batch file with the following line:

lidardecode.exe -i %1 -o %1.las -of las12