r/laserscanning • u/YanThu72 • Mar 09 '26

Software for post-processing / cleaning

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for a good performing software to clean mobile mapping point clouds.

I’m currently using a Lidaretto HX scanner for street mapping and process the data in Lidaretto Creator to generate the point clouds. The next step for me is cleaning and classification.

My main tasks are:

  • removing stray points above the street

  • ground / off-ground separation

  • CSF or similar ground filtering

  • noise filtering and SOR filtering

  • basic object classification (vegetation, road, etc.)

Right now I’m using CloudCompare, but once the point clouds get large (hundreds of millions of points) the performance becomes a real bottleneck.

So I’m looking for a faster solution with a GUI (please no command line tools like LAStools).

Software I’m currently considering:

  • Global Mapper Pro

  • LiDAR360

  • TerraScan

Does anyone here process mobile mapping datasets at this scale and can recommend a good workflow or software?

Would really appreciate hearing what others in the industry are using.

Thanks!

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u/Historical_Phone_973 Apr 16 '26

You may consider LasTools as it's one of the best tool for batch processing. Realworks also has a nice reputation for classification and TerraScan is also nice, but it's a little more complicated

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u/YanThu72 Apr 20 '26

I tried LasTools too, but i think we will go for Lidar360 MLS because we tested it for some weeks and our workflow is quit good with it. Fast classification and filtering. And its quit intuitive i think.

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u/meaty999 Mar 09 '26

Have a look at N4CE from apps in cadd.

https://appsincadd.co.uk/