<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi - thanks for the responses. Basically, I'm trying to develop a workflow to calculate the number of points per class in a given ept dataset. My experience is that the `pdal info --stats` command will read all of the data into memory and will not work on large ept files (like the usgs lidar datasets). Conor helped me out and suggested that I could use the "resolution" flag to estimate the number of points at a given level in the ept structure, and I've done that with a resolution = 50. So, for example, I have run a query like:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">pdal info --stats --filters.stats.dimensions=Classification --filters.stats.count=Classification ept://<a href="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/usgs-lidar-public/USGS_LPC_MD_VA_Sandy_NCR_2014_LAS_2015" target="_blank">https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/usgs-lidar-public/USGS_LPC_MD_VA_Sandy_NCR_2014_LAS_2015</a> --readers.ept.resolution=50 --readers.ept.threads=12</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to understand if the counts I get per classification is representative of a 50 m^2 area? It seems like from the documentation (and Jim's answer), that it is trying to take data at the octree level that is closest to the specified resolution. So, is there a way I can "back out" the point totals per classification to get a representative count per classification for the entire dataset? Is there a way to calculate what the actual returned resolution level is? Currently I am just taking a ratio between total count of the entire dataset to returned count from the subset dataset using the "resolution" flag. I then apply that ratio to the different class counts to get a rough estimate of points per classification for the entire dataset. This is certainly not the best method as it will over-estimate some of the classification totals. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for your help.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">matt.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-7683089810198383044m_555617595015237444gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">---------------------------<div>Matthew Beckley</div><div>Data Engineer</div><div>UNAVCO/OpenTopography</div><div><a href="mailto:beckley@unavco.org" target="_blank">beckley@unavco.org</a></div>303-381-7487</div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:30 PM Andrew Bell <<a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 2:49 PM Matt Beckley <<a href="mailto:beckley@unavco.org" target="_blank">beckley@unavco.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Is there more information available regarding how the 'resolution' keyword works for the latest version of readers.ept? Is it "gridding" the data at a specified cell size?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The EPT format is essentially an octree of point data. The resolution options essentially tells the reader how far to descend the tree when fetching data.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> If so, how does it handle nominal class data such as lidar classifications? Is it taking the first, last, or a random sample to assign as the classification for each cell(assuming a scenario where there are multiple classifications that fall within a given cell). In other words, how is the defining classification assigned for each cell given a sample of points with varied classification values?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The resolution option is unrelated to point classification, so I'm not sure that I understand your question. Perhaps you can provide some more detail or an example.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-7683089810198383044gmail-m_555617595015237444gmail-m_3918760174153493323gmail_signature">Andrew Bell<br><a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a></div></div>
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