ApplicationsΒΆ
PDAL contains consists of a single application, called pdal
. 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.