Who am I

15 years working on Satellite Ground Segments for

Landsat, Cryosat, MODIS, Sentinel...

Since 2006 in QGIS/GRASS

QGIS Core developer

and Plugin developer/trainer

Founder of GFOSS.it

Italian OSGEO Local Chapter

Founder of QGIS.es

Spanish QGIS user group

Coautor of "Mastering QGIS"

https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition

Reviewer

QGIS Python Programming Cookbook

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/qgis-python-programming-cookbook

Pointcloud Data Abstraction Library

http://www.pdal.io

Useful links:

https://2017.foss4g.org/post_conference/PDAL.pdf

https://github.com/chambbj/pdal-notebook

PDAL Strongest Features

Why is better than LAStools and Whitebox

• Completly GFOSS (BSD permissive Licence)
• C++ API (https://pdal.io/api/index.html)
• Basic Python Bindings (https://pypi.org/project/PDAL)
• Extensibility with Python, PCL and Matlab (https://pdal.io/stages/filters.html#languages)
• Many Readers/Writers (GDAL/OGR, PGPointClound, Entwine, Numpy...)
• Many basic building block glued in pipelines

PDAL Weakest Features

Why is in some cases you still need LAStools and Whitebox

• 1 core only (paralelization via scripting)
• No native GPU acceleration (BTW can be used in python/numpy filters)

Why PDALtools

QGIS Processing integration

• Backend chaining
  • GRASS, SAGA, QGIS Native, GDAL/OGR,...
  • LAStools or WhiteBox
• Automatic GUI generation
• Integration if a full featured GIS as QGIS

Dev for CartoLab during GeoMove project

!!! #ShowMeTheCode !!!

Here when any leecher falls

( sanguijuelas ;-)

http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/pdaltools/

http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/geomovetools/​

QUIZ Time 1

In a LAS file what could be the ScanAngle of the horizont?

QUIZ Time 2

The sun affects scan intesity

Yes?                           No?

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Luigi Pirelli

luipir@gmail.com

@ginetto

github.com/luipir 

www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli

gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli

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