Getting Started

Option A: For the non-coder

If you don’t want to do any coding yourself and instead just want to view and execute the code we’ve already written using our Jupyter Notebooks, use this link: Binder and a computing environment will be set up for you in the cloud (for free). This setup process can take several minutes, so be patient. Once that setup is done, you should be able to navigate to the “notebooks” folder of the repository and open and execute the Jupyter Notebooks without having to install anything on your own machine.

Option B: For the coder

Use the conda package manager to reproduce the computing environment we used in developing this repo. Get Anaconda or Miniconda to do so.

1. Clone this repo onto your local machine:git clone https://github.com/d-diaz/Lidar_Plot_Registration.git
2. Create a conda environment from the environment.yml file included in this repo:conda env create --name forest3d --file environment.yml
3. Activate this new conda environment: source activate forest3d (Linux, OSX) or activate forest3d (Windows)
4. Start a Jupyter session: jupyter notebook
5. In your web browser Jupyter session, navigate to the “notebooks” folder in this repo and open up one of the Jupyter Notebooks!