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pdal(1) pdal(1)

NAME

pdal - PDAL application

SYNOPSIS


pdal
<options>

pdal
<command> <command options>

DESCRIPTION

PDAL contains consists of a single application, called pdal. The pdal application currently has the following subcommands:
•
delta
•
density
•
diff
•
ground
•
info
•
merge
•
pcl
•
pipeline
•
random
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split
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tindex
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translate
•
view

Applications are run by invoking the pdal application along with the command name:


$ pdal info myfile.las
$ pdal translate input.las output.las
$ pdal pipeline --stdin < myxml.xml

Help for each command can be retrieved via the --help switch. The --drivers and --options switches can tell you more about particular drivers and their options:


$ pdal info --help
$ pdal translate --drivers
$ pdal pipeline --options writers.las

Additional driver-specific options may be specified by using a namespace-prefixed option name. For example, it is possible to set the LAS day of year at translation time with the following option:


$ pdal translate \
    --writers.las.creation_doy="42" \
    input.las \
    output.las
Note

Driver specific options can be identified using the pdal info--options invocation.

See ⟨http://pdal.io/apps.html⟩ for more detail.

OPTIONS

--debug
Sets the output level to 3 (option deprecated)
-v, --verbose
Sets the output level (0-8)
--drivers
List available drivers
-h, --help
Display help text
--list-commands
List available commands
--version
Show program version
--options=<driver name>
Show options for specified driver (or 'all')
16 December 2016