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Library for common LAS files manipulation with PDAL

Project description

ign-pdal-tools

This repo contains various python tools based on PDAL that are used to work on LiDAR data in the LidarHD project at IGN (Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière / French National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information) to work on LiDAR data.

We've decided to make them available because think that they may be useful to others, but this repo is NOT meant to be substantially modified from community input, and may be amended/completed depending on the fonctionalities that our team needs.

Content

This library contains pdal-based tools to:

  • colorize a point cloud using images from Geoplateforme / cartes.gouv.fr (a portal from French government providing access to aerial imagery)
  • stitch together LAS files using their location
  • standardize LAS files
  • unlock LAS files generated by TerraSolid

Installation / Usage

This library can be used in different ways:

  • directly from sources: make install creates a mamba environment with the required dependencies
  • installed with pip from pypi: pip install ign-pdal-tools
  • used in a docker container: see documentation Dockerfile

More details on the contained tools

Colorization

  • color.py: Colorize a point cloud from Geoplateforme data

Las infos

Misc tools to get information on a las file, eg. retrieve metadata, find epsg value, find bounds, get parameters to pass to a writer. They are intended to be used from the pdaltools module, for example:

from pdaltools import las_infos

filename = ...
las_infos.las_info_metadata(filename)

Point cloud infos

Misc tools to get information on a point cloud (numpy array). Eg. get expected origin of a point cloud based on a square tiling:

from pdaltools import pcd_infos

points = ...
pcd_infos.get_pointcloud_origin_from_tile_width(points, tile_width=1000)

Stitching

  • las_clip.py: crop a LAS file using 2d bounding box
  • las_merge.py: merge a LAS file with its neighbors according to their filenames
  • las_add_buffer.py: add points to a LAS file from a buffer (border) from its neighbors (using filenames to locate neighbors)

WARNING: In las_merge.py and las_add_buffer.py, filenames are used to get the LAS files extents and to find neighbors. The naming convention is {prefix1}_{prefix2}_{xcoord}_{ycoord}_{postfix})} (eg. Semis_2021_0770_6278_LA93_IGN69.laz). By default, xcoord and ycoord are given in kilometers and the shape of the tile is 1 km * 1 km

Standardization

Unlock

unlock_file.py: overwrite a LAS file in case PDAL raises this error: readers.las: Global encoding WKT flag not set for point format 6 - 10. which is due to TerraSolid malformed LAS output for LAS1.4 files with point format 6 to 10.

Dev / Build

Contribute

Every time the code is changed, think of updating the version file: pdaltools/_version.py

Please log your changes in CHANGELOG.md

Before committing your changes, run the precommit hooks. They can be installed to run automatically with make install-precommit

Tests

Create the conda environment: make install

Run unit tests: make testing

Pip package

To generate a pip package and deploy it on pypi, use the Makefile at the root of the repo:

  • make build: build the library
  • make install: install the library in an editable way (pip -e)
  • make deploy : deploy it on pypi

Docker image

To build a docker image with the library installed: make docker-build

To test the docker image: make docker-test

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