Apis helvetica var. Jacques

I was on my way to Rwanda to do some more work with Karisoke Research Institute on Gorillas, help close out some research worked on by University of Rwanda botany student Tuyizere Jean de Deiu on how land use and land cover have changed between 1995 and present. More on that project in a later post. In the meantime, while passing through Europe, I took … Continue reading Apis helvetica var. Jacques

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Scaling OpenDroneMap, necessary (and fun!) next steps

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, […]

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Point cloud including building and trees

Taking Slices from ~~LiDAR~~ OpenDroneMap data: Part X

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, […]

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Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part IX

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, […]

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Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part VIII

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, […]

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Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part VII

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, […]

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Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part VI

I finally got PDAL properly compiled with Point Cloud Library (PCL) baked in. Word to the wise — CLANG is what the makers are using to compile. The PDAL crew were kind enough to revert the commit which broke GCC support, but why swim upstream? If you are compiling PDAL yourself, use CLANG. (Side note, the revert to support GCC was really helpful for ensuring … Continue reading Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part VI

Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part V

For this post, let’s combine the work in the last 4 posts in order to get a single pipeline for doing the following: Calculate relative height of LiDAR data Slice that data into bands of heights Load the data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS/pgPointCloud database. Now, we can use parallel to make this run a little faster: Sadly, we can run into issues in running this in … Continue reading Taking Slices from LiDAR data: Part V