Questions tagged [pdal]
PDAL (Point Data Abstraction Library) provides both a suite of command-line applications and programming library for the processing, filtering, translation, and querying of point cloud data in a pipeline fashion that allows complex processing chains to be put together simply.
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Clipping of PointCloud doesn't work
First of all it worked before, by using this page: https://pdal.io/en/2.4.3/workshop/exercises/analysis/clipping/clipping.html
But sadly they removed that page. I don't remember exactly anymore but it ...
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PDAL: open stream for ' ' with error 'No error'
I'm trying to run a pdal pipeline - which has worked before (on a different computer, different data around 3 years ago) - on a singular las dataset - however it keeps throwing up an error: PDAL: ...
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PDAL pipeline parsing error
I am trying to produce a DEM/DTM from a LAZ file I have on my computer. I have built the following pipeline JSON file:{}ground.filter.json>[] pipeline > {} 5 limits
{
"pipeline":[
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Assessing the success of GEOID conversion using VDatum
I have a set of LAZ files that I'm trying to convert to GEOID18. The original files are assigned EPSG:6350+5703 - GEOID12B. I reprojected the files to EPSG:6340+5703 - GEOID12B using PDAL and then ...
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Pdal's Litree is taking too long
pdal's litree is taking too much time. the script is running for 45 minutes and it is only at the 4th tree.
PROJ: proj_as_wkt: Open of /home/adminis/conda/envs/pcd-editing/share/proj failed
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Skip LAS files in PDAL Pipeline from directory conditionally
I want to use a PDAL pipeline to process a directory of .las files via a couple stages. My pseudocode / general workflow is this:
Filter to ground and canopy classifications (specifically a custom-...
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PDAL assigning horizontal and vertical CRS
I have a LAS file which im using PDAL to convert it to a COPC. As part of the process I want to assign both the horizontal and vertical CRS to the output COPC.
I can easily assign a horizontal CRS ...
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Can I use PDAL inside QGIS on Debian?
When I install QGIS 3 on Windows, the Processing Toolbox includes some point cloud routines based on PDAL. When I install the same version of QGIS on Debian, it doesn't—the routines don't even appear ...
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Merging 300GB + of las files into one laz file
I'm working with point cloud processing and I'm having some issues to manage to merge the point cloud files I have, is something around a billion points in las format.
I need to merge them into a ...
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What is the correct way to capture error from PDAL in a python script
I am trying to execute PDAL within a python script for multiple tasks from conversion to filtering, etc. If there is any error with the file, PDAL stops executing and throws an error. But I am unable ...
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PDAL Coplanar in a WHERE statement?
I can't get Coplanar = 1 to be accepted in a WHERE condition in PDAL. I can run filters.approximatecoplanar, and I can use Coplanar in a range statement ("limits":"Coplanar[1:1]")....
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PDAL one liner : using same filter twice
I just want a confirmation that it is not possible to do the following PDAL pipeline as a one line command :
[
"in.ply",
{
"type" : "filters.ferry",
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PDAL readers.las Error returning GDAL Failure (1) "components of the compound CRS do not belong to one of the allowed combinations of ..."
Encounter following errors while trying to read .las data from LidarBC (dwld data here if needed). I am using pdal=2.7.1 and have libgdal=3.8.5.
When i try to translate the linked file with
pdal ...
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Is there a way to control the number of points per node when writing to COPC
I'm trying to write a very large (6TB) collection of LAZ files into a collection of COPC files. When viewing these remotely using a webviewer, I'm running into performance issues when the viewer has ...
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Inconsistent behaviour for accessing COPC from S3 compatible storage
We are experiencing inconsistent behaviour on access to COPC files from Web clients. Desktop clients (QGIS and PDAL info) work perfectly from our CEPH-based S3 compatible bucket.
But https://viewer....
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