pdal(1) PDAL application

SYNOPSIS

pdal <command> [--debug] [--drivers] [--help] [--options=< driver name>] [--version]

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
  • split
  • tindex
  • 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
Show debug information
--drivers
Show drivers
-h, --help
Print help message
--options=<driver name>
Show driver options
--version
Show version info

LAST SEARCHED