rTLS: Tools to Process Point Clouds Derived from Terrestrial Laser Scanning

A set of tools to process and calculate metrics on point clouds derived from terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging; TLS). Its creation is based on key aspects of the TLS application in forestry and ecology. Currently, the main routines are based on filtering, neighboring features of points, voxelization, canopy structure, and the creation of artificial stands. It is written using data.table and C++ language and in most of the functions it is possible to use parallel processing to speed-up the routines.

Version:	0.2.6.1
Depends:	data.table (≥ 1.17.8), R (≥ 4.5.0)
Imports:	alphashape3d, boot, doSNOW (≥ 1.0.16), foreach (≥ 1.4.4), parallel, RcppHNSW (≥ 0.3.0), rgl, sf
LinkingTo:	Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppProgress
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, covr, testthat (≥ 3.0.1)
Published:	2026-01-19
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rTLS
Author:	J. Antonio Guzmán Q. [cre, aut, ths, cph], Ronny Hernandez [aut], Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa [dgs, sad]
Maintainer:	J. Antonio Guzmán Q. <antguz06 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/Antguz/rTLS/issues
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://github.com/Antguz/rTLS
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	GNU make
Citation:	rTLS citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	rTLS results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	rTLS.html , rTLS.pdf
Vignettes:	Creation of artificial stands (source, R code) Estimation of tree metrics (source, R code) Voxel counting and fractal geometry (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	rTLS_0.2.6.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rTLS_0.2.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): rTLS_0.2.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources:	rTLS archive

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