CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Point Cloud Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

CSARPC

Reader/Writer

Reader

Licensing Level

Professional and above

Dependencies

None

Dataset Type

Reader: File

Feature Type

CSARPC or

<source_dataset_filename>

Typical File Extensions

.csar

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

No

Coordinate System Support

Yes

Generic Color Support

No

Spatial Index

No

Schema Required

No

Transaction Support

No

Encoding Support No

Geometry Type Attribute

csarpc_type

CSARPC Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate no

circles

no

circular arc

no

donut polygon

no

elliptical arc

no

ellipses

no

line

no

none

no

point

no

point cloud

yes

polygon

no

raster

no

solid

no

surface

no

text

no

z values

yes

CSARPC Point Cloud Component Data Type

Point Cloud Component

Data Type

x Real64
y Real64
z Real64
any Real64, Real32, UInt64, UInt32, UInt16, UInt8, Int64, Int32, Int16, Int8, String