<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m starting to work with LiDAR point cloud (LPC) data with the goal of creating multi-band rasters that list terrain height, surface height, and surface type. GRASS looks like the ticket for visualizing LPC data and processing it into GeoTIFFs using Python scripting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I’m on Ubuntu 20.04, and it appears that LPC support requires compiling your own binary, which I did from the GitHub repo following these instructions:<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu" class="">https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The resulting 7.9.dev binary has v.in.pdal but not r.in.pdal. Is there a way to get the latter working? All the tutorials I’m finding refer to r.in.lidar, which appears similar to r.in.pdal but relies on deprecated liblas instead of pdal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks like d.vect will get me from a vector layer to a raster layer but haven’t figured it out yet. Should I import using v.in.pdal then convert to raster with d.vect?</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andreas</div></body></html>