Category: Point Cloud

  • LAS srs and assignment in PDAL

    LAS srs and assignment in PDAL

    One of the most popular, or even the most popular formats of 3d point cloud data is LAS. I’ve written about it before here, but in this example let’s take it further, let’s write some data. I’ve got some data with questionable srs info to start and I’m trying to work out exactly the issue.…

  • How to work with point cloud data

    How to work with point cloud data

    Fundamentally point cloud data is just a lot of points needing to be represented in real or cartesian space. As a colleague recently pointed out to me, computer science is just moving information from one place to another. So the format in which we move data can become very significant and really understanding the schema…