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

whiteboxgui

An interactive GUI for WhiteboxTools in a Jupyter-based environment

ouster-sdk

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

pylas

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

kiss-slam

A LiDAR SLAM system that just works

rko-lio

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

jakteristics

Compute point cloud geometric features from python

licelformat

Python implementation of licel file format

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.

geofabrics

A package for generating hydrologically conditioned DEMs and roughness maps from LiDAR and other infrastructure data. Check the wiki for install and usage instructions, and documentation at https://rosepearson.github.io/GeoFabrics/

bagx

A readiness checker for recorded ROS1/ROS2 bags

pyforestscan

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

rs-fusion-datasets

Remote Sensing Data-Fetcher and Data-Loader for Joint Classification of Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

lidar

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

raycast2d

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

lds2d

Python driver for 2D LiDARs (LDROBOT, YDLIDAR, RPLIDAR, 3irobotix, Neato/Xiaomi, Camsense, Hitachi-LG) — a Pythonic port of kaiaai/LDS

alice-lri

LiDAR Range Image processing and intrinsic parameter estimation library

camtools

CamTools: Camera Tools for Computer Vision

mpl2nc

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

travel-seg

[RA-L] Traversable ground and above-ground object segmentation using graph representation of 3D LiDAR scans

xcalib

Camera-LiDAR cross-modal matching for edge devices: pretrained matchers, targetless calibration, ONNX/TensorRT export, training, and one-shot adaptation.

genz-icp

GenZ-ICP: SOTA robust LiDAR odometry (IEEE RA-L 2025)