Applied-GeoSolutions / lidar2dems

Utilities using PDAL and PCL to create DTMs, DSMs, and CHMs from lidar data
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update l2d_tiles #12

Open matthewhanson opened 9 years ago

matthewhanson commented 9 years ago

l2d_tiles operates differently than the other scripts.

For now it's been moved out of scripts directory. It currently works using hardcoded directory patterns (Polygon_???utm???), and operates on a collection of directories.

See tutorial in docs for how other scripts work. To be consistent l2d_tiles should:

matthewhanson commented 9 years ago

l2d_tiles is better implemented using the pdal command pdal info --boundary lasfile

which will calculate the hex surface surrounding all the points. l2d_tiles, or similar utility should get the boundary for each tile and combine them all into shapefile with an attribute giving the filename.