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      Just to give the solution I found:<br>
      I use gdal_retile.py now for preparing tiles from my large GTiff
      files. Besides: Using a clean Ubuntu 20 docker and install pdal
      works fine. pdal/pdal:2.2 also does, pdal/pdal:latest does not<br>
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      Thank you for everybody helping!<br>
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      This does however lead to another question:<br>
      is there a way to stop the execution of the writer in a pipeline
      where the first filtering stage has an empty result - no points?
      Or am I missing something. Please bare with me, I'm new to PDAL.<br>
      ```<br>
      {<br>
        "pipeline":[<br>
          {<br>
            "type":"readers.gdal",<br>
            "spatialreference":"EPSG:4326"<br>
          },<br>
          {<br>
          "type" : "filters.ferry",<br>
          "dimensions": "band-1=Z"<br>
          },<br>
          {<br>
          "type" : "filters.range",<br>
          "limits":"Z![-32767:-32767]"<br>
          }, <br>
      # no result here for all points are empty in a border tile, can I
      skip the further stages?<br>
          {<br>
            "type":"filters.chipper",<br>
            "capacity":600<br>
          },<br>
          {<br>
            "type":"writers.pgpointcloud",<br>
            "connection":"host='pgpointcloud' dbname='pointclouds'
      user='someone' password='something' port='5432'",<br>
            "schema":"pointcloud",<br>
            "compression":"dimensional",<br>
            "srid":"4326"<br>
          }<br>
        ]<br>
      }<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.02.21 um 13:11 schrieb Kirk
      Waters - NOAA Federal:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">While there might be a way to do this in PDAL, it
        looks like your problem is a raster to raster operation. I
        suspect you'd want to use the tiling capabilities of GDAL (or
        similar) first and then use PDAL once you're doing a point
        operation.
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:02
          AM Lars Fricke <<a href="mailto:lars.fricke@skendata.de"
            moz-do-not-send="true">lars.fricke@skendata.de</a>>
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              <br>
              Having installed pdal 1.6.0 (git-version: Release) in an
              Ubuntu docker environment, I receive the following output
              from `pdal --help`:<br>
              ```<br>
              The following commands are available:<br>
                 - kernels.delta<br>
                 - kernels.diff<br>
                 - kernels.ground<br>
                 - kernels.hausdorff<br>
                 - <a href="http://kernels.info" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">kernels.info</a><br>
                 - kernels.merge<br>
                 - kernels.pipeline<br>
                 - kernels.random<br>
                 - kernels.sort<br>
                 - kernels.split<br>
                 - kernels.tindex<br>
                 - kernels.translate<br>
              ```<br>
              I am intending to use pdal tile to split large raster
              files before importing to pgpointcloud but it is not
              available. I tried installing pdal-doc, both from bionic
              universe. Can you please give me a clue how to get pdal
              tile installed? <br>
              <br>
              Thank you very much for your help.<br>
              Best<br>
              <br>
              Lars<br>
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