lidar_tools

Tools to process airborne and satellite LiDAR point clouds

Warning! This package is under active development!

Quickstart

We recommend using pixi to install a locked software environment for executing code in this repository. Once installed, you can run scripts from a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/uw-cryo/lidar_tools.git
cd lidar_tools
pixi shell
pdal_pipeline notebooks/processing_extent.geojson notebooks/SRS_CRS.wkt notebooks/UTM_13N_WGS84_G2139_3D.wkt /tmp/dem

Installation

By default, pixi only manages dependencies required to run scripts in this respository, such as PDAL. However, you might also want to install optional libraries into the same environment such as GDAL command line tools:

pixi add gdal

Or Ames Stereo pipeline:

pixi project channel add nasa-ames-stereo-pipeline
pixi project channel add usgs-astrogeology
pixi add stereo-pipeline

Using pip

If you already have an environment you can install just the code in this library with pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/uw-cryo/lidar_tools.git@main --no-deps