Using PDAL Wrench for Processing Point Clouds from the Command Line

Together with the QGIS Processing tools for processing point clouds, also PDAL wrench became available. This can be used to process point clouds using command line commands and makes it easier to automate procedures.

QGIS version: 3.32 Lima

0:00 Introduction
1:30 Setup PDAL wrench
2:55 Create a Virtual Point Cloud layer from tiles
3:30 Clip the VPC with a polygon layer
4:16 Interpolate point cloud to raster using TIN
5:20 Merge point cloud tiles into one LAZ file
5:46 Clip LAZ file with a polygon layer

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[brianyohn]

Is pdal_wrench available as a docker container? I'm trying to get command line working on ubuntu but seem to have some dependency issues. a container would make it easy!

[msf]

Great video Hans !!!!. I woul like to know how can i calculate set operation between two point clouds, i mean (Union, Diference, Intersection ... etc). All this operations using command line

[mandata]

Sir, would you mind to make a video on how to fit overlapping lidar data? 🤗