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The Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) is an open source collection of software tools developed for reading, writing, and performing operations, like reprojecting or filtering, point cloud data. Point cloud data is typically collected from active imaging systems like Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems. PDAL takes its cue from another very popular open source project – GDAL. GDAL is Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, and it is used throughout the geospatial software industry to provide translation and processing support for a variety of raster and vector formats. PDAL provides the same capability for point cloud data types.

PDAL provides common functionality, including:
Reading point cloud data in a variety of formats
Writing point cloud data in a variety of formats
Converting point cloud data to rasters and meshes
Merging, splitting, culling, re-sampling point clouds
Reprojecting point clouds
Filtering point clouds

The source code can be found on GitHub (github.com/PDAL/PDAL)

Documentation and tutorials with sample data can be found at pdal.io

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conda install -c conda-forge python-pdal Solving environment: | hangs when running windows 10

Trying to install PDAL with conda and it just hangs at the "Solving Environment:" I have not had much luck with PDAL. I am using windows 10 and this is a fresh install of Anaconda / conda. I let it run for about an hour just in case. I was going…
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Point cloud denoising with PDAL

I have very dense single return point cloud collected with ground Lidar and consisting of more than 8 000 000 points in approximately 700 square meters. It consists of noise points which I would like to remove. I am using filters.outlier in PDAL…
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Point Cloud density visualization with PDAL

I have terrestrial laser scanning point cloud collected with scanners coordinate system. I would like to create density surface using Pdal and running the following code in OSGeo4W shell. But getting error. C:\>pdal density ^ More?…
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Issue using subprocess to run a PDAL bash command from Python

Issue: I cannot run a pdal bash command from Python using subprocess. Here is the code based on Running Bash commands in Python: import os, subprocess input = '/path/to/file.ply' output = '/path/to/statfile.json' if not os.path.isfile(output): …
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