Third-party software

Lidar Extractor is built on open source software. This page reproduces their licence notices, as their authors ask. Thanks to them: without their work this application would not exist.

SLAM engine

The GLIM mapping engine and its direct dependencies are the work of Kenji Koide (koide3), a researcher at AIST.

• GLIM — MIT licence — © 2024 koide3 — github.com/koide3/glim
• gtsam_points — MIT licence — © koide3 — github.com/koide3/gtsam_points
• small_gicp — MIT licence — © koide3 — github.com/koide3/small_gicp
• GTSAM — simplified BSD licence — Georgia Tech Research Corporation — gtsam.org

These libraries ship alongside Boost (Boost Software License), fmt, spdlog, METIS, ICU and the LLVM OpenMP runtime.

Video and 360° imagery

• FFmpeg — GPL v3 — ffmpeg.org. The copy distributed with the application is built with --enable-gpl --enable-version3 and includes x264 and x265, themselves under the GPL. FFmpeg runs as a separate program; its corresponding source is available from the FFmpeg project, and from us on request.

GNSS / PPK georeferencing

• RTKLIB (convbin, rnx2rtkp) — BSD licence — T. Takasu — rtklib.com
• RNXCMP (crx2rnx) — Y. Hatanaka, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan

Gaussian Splat viewer

• SuperSplat — MIT licence — © 2011-2026 PlayCanvas Ltd — github.com/playcanvas/supersplat

Application

Interface built with Flutter and Dart (BSD licence, Google) and packages from their ecosystem, under their respective licences.

Getting the full texts

The full text of each licence ships with the components inside the installed application. For any licensing question, or to obtain source code, write to us: contact.