- Extension
- .las
- .ply
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- 3D
- 3D
- Developer
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
- Stanford University
- Description
- LAS (LASer) is a binary file format for storing 3D LiDAR point cloud data, including coordinates, intensity, classification, and other attributes captured by laser scanning systems. It is widely used in surveying, geospatial analysis, forestry, and topographic mapping to exchange and archive aerial or terrestrial LiDAR data.
- It is a 3D model file format developed by Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. PLY is mainly used to describe objects in a collection of polygons.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.las
- application/octet-stream