LiDAR point cloud to grid surface tutorial (#5)

weiji14 · web-flow · commit 891a4c5cf528 · 2022-05-17T12:02:08.000-04:00
Tutorial showcasing LiDAR data processing pipeline over Wellington, New Zealand. Doing data loading using laspy, pre-processing with `blockmedian`, gridding with `surface`, and plotting in 2D with `grdimage` and in 3D using `grdview`.

* Add LiDAR tutorial to table of contents
* Remove type hints and just show dataframe output
* Minor tweaks to notebook code
* Clear jupyter notebook cells and delete .py script
* Gitignore NetCDF files
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Data files
+*.laz
+*.nc
+*.png
+*.tif
+
 # Jupyter Book
 /book/_build/
 
diff --git a/book/_toc.yml b/book/_toc.yml
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ parts:
   chapters:
     - file: first-figure
     - file: ecosystem
+    - file: lidar_to_surface
diff --git a/book/lidar_to_surface.ipynb b/book/lidar_to_surface.ipynb
