Point Cloud Processing and Analysis with PDAL

Author:

Howard Butler

Author:

Pete Gadomski

Author:

Dr. Craig Glennie

Author:

Michael Smith

Author:

Dr. Adam Steer

Contact:

howard@hobu.co

Date:

06/01/2023

• Introduction
  • Materials
    • Slides
    • Workshop Materials
    • USB Example Data Drive
• Introduction to LiDAR
  • Types of LiDAR
  • Modes of LiDAR Collection
  • Georeferencing
    • Integrating LiDAR and GNSS/IMU data
  • Discrete-Return vs. Full-Waveform
• Software Installation
  • Conda
    • What is Conda
    • How will we use Conda?
    • Installing Conda
  • QGIS
    • What is QGIS?
    • How will we use QGIS?
    • Installing QGIS
    • Conclusion
• Getting Started
  • Printing the first point
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Printing file metadata
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Searching near a point
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Compression
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Reprojection
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Entwine
    • Exercise
    • Notes
• Manipulation
  • Finding the boundary
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Clipping data with polygons
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Colorizing points with imagery
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Removing noise
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Visualizing acquisition density
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Thinning
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Identifying ground
    • Exercise
• Generation
  • Generating a DTM
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Creating surface meshes
    • Exercise
  • Rasterizing Attributes
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Plotting a histogram
    • Exercise
    • Notes
  • Georeferencing
    • Exercise
  • Batch Processing
    • Operating system variations
    • Example - Batch compression of LAS files to LAZ - PowerShell:
    • Example - Parallel Batch compression of LAS files to LAZ - PowerShell:
    • Example - Batch compression of LAS files to LAZ - Bash:
    • Example - Parallel Batch compression of LAS files to LAZ - Bash:
• Final Project
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