<div dir="ltr">I don't believe that we have what you are looking for currently. It wouldn't be difficult to develop, and in fact we do something very similar in the Delta kernel. It only reports the delta per point per common dimension between the two input files though, and does not compute the distance or store the result in either of the files.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:57 AM Antonio Molina <<a href="mailto:antonio.molina@nmgroup.com">antonio.molina@nmgroup.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">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Is there any way to measure distances between a vector and a point cloud or between two point clouds in pdal? 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