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Welcome to laserfarm's documentation!
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Laserfarm (Laserchicken Framework for Applications in Research in Macro-ecology) provides a FOSS wrapper to Laserchicken
supporting the use of massive LiDAR point cloud data sets for macro-ecology, from data preparation to scheduling and
execution of distributed processing across a cluster of compute nodes.

Laserfarm has been developed within the `eEcoLiDAR project`_ at `the Netherlands eScience Center`_.
The code is hosted on `GitHub`_. If you want to contribute to the development of Laserfarm,
have a look at the  `contribution guidelines`_.

.. _eEcoLiDAR project: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/projects/eecolidar/
.. _the Netherlands eScience Center: https://www.esciencecenter.nl
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/eEcoLiDAR/Laserfarm
.. _contribution guidelines: https://github.com/eEcoLiDAR/Laserfarm/tree/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Contents:

   readme 
   user_manual