Lidar Python Packages

laspy

Laspy is a pythonic interface for reading/modifying/creating .LAS LIDAR files matching specification 1.0-1.4.

whitebox

WhiteboxTools Python Frontend

ouster-sdk

Cross-platform C++ and Python SDK for Ouster LiDAR sensors. Includes tools for visualization, data recording/replay, and sensor configuration

whiteboxgui

An interactive GUI for WhiteboxTools in a Jupyter-based environment

pylas

⚠️ pylas was merged into laspy 2.0 https://github.com/laspy/laspy⚠️

rko-lio

A Robust Approach for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Without Sensor-Specific Modelling

jakteristics

Compute point cloud geometric features from python

geofabrics

A package for creating geofabrics for flood modelling.

rs-fusion-datasets

Remote Sensing Dataset fetcher, loader and benchmarker utils for Joint Classification of Hyperspectral and LiDAR/SAR Data

pointcloudset

Efficient analysis of large datasets of point clouds recorded over time

truckscenes-devkit

Development Kit for the MAN TruckScenes Dataset

ign-lidar-hd

🏗️ Comprehensive Python library for processing IGN LiDAR HD data into machine learning-ready datasets for Building Level of Detail (LOD) classification. Features GPU/CPU processing, smart data management, and complete ML pipeline integration.

raycast2d

Fast python library for 2D raycasting on occupancy grid maps and/or images

lidar

A Python package for delineating nested surface depressions from digital elevation data.

camtools

CamTools: Camera Tools for Computer Vision.

pyforestscan

A python package for calculating forest structural metrics from airborne point clouds.

alice-lri

LiDAR Range Image processing and intrinsic parameter estimation library

robot-lidar-fusion

The open-source control stack for autonomous robots with LiDAR-camera sensor fusion.

mpl2nc

Convert Sigma Space Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) data files to NetCDF

dendromatics

Automatic dendrometry in terrestrial point clouds

liguard

A research-purposed, GUI-powered, Python-based framework that allows easy development of dynamic point-cloud (and accompanying image) data processing pipelines.

segment-lidar

A package for segmenting LiDAR data using Segment-Anything Model (SAM) from Meta AI Research.

kiss-slam

A LiDAR SLAM system that just works

cloudanalyzer

CLI-first QA toolkit for point clouds, trajectories, and 3D perception outputs. Evaluate map post-processing, SLAM runs, and geometry regressions with reports, gates, and web inspection.