[pdal] lidar2dems released

[Howard Butler]

> On Jun 4, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Matt Hanson <matt.a.hanson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello PDAL list members,
> 
> You may remember I've been working on creating DEMs from LiDAR data and have posted various questions to the list over the past few months.
> 
> I'm happy to say that as a result of the work we've done (processing of about 3 TB of LiDAR data into DEMs), we have an collection of utilities we have released as open source.
> 
> lidar2dems uses PDAL (and PCL) in some command line utilities to make it easy to create DEMs from las files.   Multiple point clouds can be merged together automatically, and the code can process input in pieces which we found was necessary for some very large data sets.
> 
> Documentation and tutorial can be found at:
> http://applied-geosolutions.github.io/lidar2dems/
> 
> and the project is on GitHub:
> https://github.com/Applied-GeoSolutions/lidar2dems

This is fantastic! Thanks for the effort to polish it up into a project and especially the documentation work. That’s one area where PDAL is still pretty deficient these days :( I’d be interested in hearing your lessons learned in regard to PDAL. What’s working well, and what’s working poorly for stuff like lidar2dems? The stuff my team uses PDAL for is mostly data management and light duty processing, and this use case is in a slightly different sphere.

I will make some modifications to the p2g documentation to point to this project so that others can start using it. 

Congratulations!

Howard