saracen9/lidartools repository overview

⁠LiDAR Tools

This repository acts as a simple docker wrapper around a number of excellent opensource LiDAR processing tools such as PDAL⁠.

The toolset is built from source wherever possible to maintain portability.

⁠Example usage

Run the container and mount a working directory.

docker run --rm -it -v ./data:/data saracen9/lidartools bash

Now try to download a sample e57 file and translate it into a laz file.

wget "https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/e57-3d-imgfmt/E57Example-data/Trimble_StSulpice-Cloud-50mm.e57" 
pdal translate -i Trimble_StSulpice-Cloud-50mm.e57 -o Trimble_StSulpice-Cloud-50mm.e57.laz

Once completed you should now have two files:

• Original: Trimble_StSulpice-Cloud-50mm.e57 (138MB)
• Compressed LAZ: Trimble_StSulpice-Cloud-50mm.e57.laz (85MB)

⁠Features

• PDAL
  • Bash completion, completion for PDAL command line
  • PostgreSQL PointCloud plugin, read/write PostgreSQL PointCloud objects
  • SQLite plugin, read/write SQLite objects
  • Python plugin, add features that depend on python
  • FBX plugin, add features that depend on FBX
  • E57 plugin, read/write data to and from e57 format
  • LASzip (provides LASzip compression)
  • GDAL (provides general purpose raster, vector, and reference system support)
  • GeoTIFF
  • ZLIB (compression support in BPF)
  • ZSTD (general compression support)
• GDAL
• LASZIP
• EIGEN
• FBX
• PCL

⁠Roadmap / TODO

• Optimise image
  • Remove unecessary layers [X]
  • Move to multi-stage builder to minimise size
  • Shift to Alpine
• Review logging/progress options
• Add support for LAStools⁠ (provided by rapidlasso⁠)