Add ElevationPointCloud class

setup.cfg

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ xdem =
 include =
     xdem
     xdem.coreg
+    xdem.epc
 
 [options.extras_require]
 opt =

tests/test_epc/test_epc.py

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+"""Test module for EPC class."""
+
+class TestEPC:
+
+

xdem/epc/epc.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""Module for the ElevationPointCloud class."""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from geoutils import PointCloud
+
+class EPC(PointCloud):
+    """
+    The georeferenced elevation point cloud.
+
+    An elevation point cloud is a vector of 3D point geometries, or a vector of 2D point geometries associated to
+    an elevation value from a main data column, optionally with auxiliary data columns.
+
+     Main attributes:
+        ds: :class:`geopandas.GeoDataFrame`
+            Geodataframe of the point cloud.
+        data_column: str
+            Name of point cloud data column.
+        crs: :class:`pyproj.crs.CRS`
+            Coordinate reference system of the point cloud.
+        bounds: :class:`rio.coords.BoundingBox`
+            Coordinate bounds of the point cloud.
+
+
+    All other attributes are derivatives of those attributes, or read from the file on disk.
+    See the API for more details.
+    """