delta

The delta command is used to select a nearest point from a candidate file for each point in the source file.

$ pdal delta <source> <candidate>

--source           source file name
--candidate        candidate file name
--detail           Output deltas per-point
--alldims          Compute diffs for all dimensions (not just X,Y,Z)

Example 1:

$ pdal delta ../../test/data/las/1.2-with-color.las \
    ../../test/data/las/1.2-with-color.las
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Delta summary for
     source: '../../test/data/las/1.2-with-color.las'
     candidate: '../../test/data/las/1.2-with-color.las'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------- --------------- --------------- --------------
 Dimension       X             Y                  Z
----------- --------------- --------------- --------------
 Min        0.0000            0.0000            0.0000
 Max        0.0000            0.0000            0.0000
 Mean       0.0000            0.0000            0.0000
----------- --------------- --------------- --------------

Example 2:

$ pdal delta test/data/1.2-with-color.las \
    test/data/1.2-with-color.las --detail
"ID","DeltaX","DeltaY","DeltaZ"
0,0.00,0.00,0.00
1,0.00,0.00,0.00
2,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,0.00,0.00,0.00