pdal-piper 0.2.0

Type stubs and utilities for PDAL (Point Data Abstraction Library) and USGS 3DEP lidar download.

pdal-piper

Type stubs and utilities PDAL (Point Data Abstraction Library) and USGS 3DEP.

Overview

Type stubs for PDAL: Adds support for IntelliSense and inline documentation to the pdal-python package for better IDE support when developing pdal pipelines in PyCharm, VSCode, etc. After installing pdal-piper, your IDE should be able to recognize objects like pdal.Reader.copc() and provide descriptions of the input parameters.

USGS 3DEP utilities: Search the current USGS 3DEP airborne lidar catalog and find URLs for Entwine Point Tiles that overlap a search area.

Parallel processing: Utilities for slicing search areas into tiles and processing them in parallel.

*Note, the original version of this package included its own data structures for pipelines and stages. The revised version is designed for built-in pdal-python pipeline and stage objects.

Installation

Basic Install:

conda install -c conda-forge pdal pdal-python gdal geopandas 
pip install pdal-piper

It is strongly recommended that you make use of Conda’s environment management system and install PDAL in a separate environment (i.e., not the base environment). Instructions can be found on the Conda website.

Intellisense and inline documentation support is enabled by inserting the file pipeline.pyi into the pdal-python install directory (see "stub files", PEP 484). The pipeline.pyi file should be generated and inserted automatically when pdal_piper is installed. If needed, you can regenerate and reinsert this file by running pdal_piper.skeletons.generate_skeletons(). You may also need to restart your IDE and/or regenerate indexes or clear the local cache.

Example