LAZ is my preferred point cloud format, as it is a lossless compressed format that is considerably smaller than uncompressed LAS. One thing that has always bugged me is that reading LAZ is quite slow, at […]
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Despite having AI in the company name, I’m somewhat critical of the benefits provided of generative AI/Large Language Models (LLMs). I find that the answers often leave something to be desired, and the general consensus now seems to […]
Virtualisation and Containerisation are an important part of today’s computing landscape. Containers offer several benefits compared to software running directly on an operating system: They are isolated environments, helping with issues like security and dependencies. Running […]
I’ve previously written about parallelizing for loops in C/C++ and C#. This is possible in Python, too, and might even be more important than in the two other languages, as Python’s interpreted nature can make it […]
I started coding with Basic (on the Commodore 64, of course), but I consider myself mostly a C++ programmer. That’s the language I used throughout my time as university student and that I still use for […]
When you have many point cloud files that are not tiled, it can be tricky to find the one file that covers a certain geographic area. One way to deal with this is to construct the […]
Geodetic and geotechnical monitoring is an important task within the field of surveying. It is often employed to monitor critical buildings and infrastructure during construction works. One of the highlights of my geodetic career was the […]
Meta AI Research has released Segment Anything, a model that can do automatic semantic segmentation of images without prior training for a specific application. The code, pre-trained models, and the training dataset are publicly available. After […]
One of the advantages of QGIS is how well it integrates Python. There’s a Python console, but more importantly it is possible to expand QGIS with Python plugins. These come in two flavours: GUI plugins have […]