Cut circles from las-files using a list of coordinates

This R-script is used to create an “extractPlots.bat”-file that can be run in a command window. The script creates one row per plot in the bat-file and uses the command las2las from LasTools. You are required to provide a txt-file with the fields id, x, y.

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rm(list=ls())

#Example:
#Load your sample plots in this format with the three columns: id, x, y.
#samplePlots <- data.frame("id"=c(1001, 1002), "x"=c(520, 550), "y"=c(520, 580))

setwd("F:\\ALS")

samplePlots <- read.table("plots.txt", header=T, sep="\t")
names(samplePlots) <- c("id", "x", "y")

outpath <- "extractedPlotsLas"

# Radius of sample plots
radius <- 10

sink("extractPlots.bat")

# Create code to clip with exact coordinate, -inside_circle.
writeLines(paste0("las2las -i *.las -inside_circle ", samplePlots$x, " ", samplePlots$y, " ", radius, " -o ", outpath, "/", samplePlots$id, ".las -merged -v"))

sink()
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