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Announcing the Point Cloud Data in QGIS Crowdfunding Campaign!

August 24, 2020 North Road

With the recent advancements in LiDAR survey technology and photogrammetry there has been a huge demand in capturing and storing point cloud data. Point cloud data are vector in nature, but are usually orders of magnitude larger than a standard vector layer. Typical vector datasets range from thousands to millions of features, while point clouds range from millions to billions or even trillions of points. Due to this sheer number of points a completely different approach to visualise, analyse and store point clouds is needed in a GIS platform.

Integrating a point cloud viewer in a desktop GIS application adds a lot of value for users compared to a specialised and dedicated point cloud viewer:

  • Point cloud data can be visualised, compared, and analysed alongside other types of spatial data (including vector, raster and mesh layers)
  • A familiar user interface and workflows
  • Integration with analytical tools to quickly create derived datasets

Despite these benefits, current versions of the QGIS desktop application do not support visualisation of point cloud data. With our partners at Lutra Consulting and Hobu, we have decided to bridge this missing gap and add point cloud support in QGIS, and are launching a new crowdfunding campaign to fund this work!

Head on over to the official crowd funding page here for the full details of the campaign, and for details on how you can contribute and make this work a reality.

by northroadwpadmin at 8:01 AM under crowd funding , laz , lidar , point clouds , qgis

PDAL 1.7 packaged for Fedora including vertical datums and grids

April 29, 2018 Markus Neteler

Cologne city shown as colorized 3D point cloud (data source: openNRW Germany)In order to simplify the installation of the latest PDAL release (Point Data Abstraction Library, https://pdal.io/, version 1.7.0 1.7.2) on Fedora, I have created an updated set of RPM packages, again including the vertical datums and grids available from OSGeo (i.e., .gtx files from here).

The installation is as simple as this (the repository is located at Fedora’s COPR):

# enable extra repos to satisfy dependencies
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/pdal-hexer
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/points2grid
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/laszip

# install minimal dependencies
sudo dnf install hexer
sudo dnf install points2grid

# enable and install PDAL
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/pdal
sudo dnf install PDAL PDAL-vdatums

# run it
pdal-config --version
pdal --help

Enjoy!

The post PDAL 1.7 packaged for Fedora including vertical datums and grids appeared first on GFOSS Blog | GRASS GIS and OSGeo News.

by neteler at 9:51 PM under blog , las , lidar , osgeo , pdal (Comments)

PDAL 1.6.0 packaged for Fedora including vertical datums and grids

November 3, 2017 Markus Neteler

Cologne city shown as colorized 3D point cloud (data source: openNRW Germany)In order to simplify the installation of the latest PDAL release (Point Data Abstraction Library, http://www.pdal.io/, version 1.6.0) on Fedora, I have created an updated set of RPM packages now including vertical datums and grids (.gtx files from here).

The installation is as simple as this (the repository is located at Fedora’s COPR):

# enable extra repos to satisfy dependencies
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/pdal-hexer
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/points2grid

# install dependencies
sudo dnf install hexer
sudo dnf install points2grid

# enable and install PDAL
sudo dnf copr enable neteler/pdal
sudo dnf install PDAL PDAL-devel PDAL-vdatums

# run PDAL:
pdal-config --version
pdal --help

Enjoy!

The post PDAL 1.6.0 packaged for Fedora including vertical datums and grids appeared first on GFOSS Blog | GRASS GIS Courses.

by neteler at 11:39 AM under fedora , foss4g , fossgis , gfoss , lidar , pdal (Comments)
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