<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Hi,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I am loking for a PDAL pipline to get rid of low lying points.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The point cloud I am working with is very dense and represents the surface of a concrete pavement.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The slabs of the pavement are divided by joints - and the points lying in these joints just below the surface I want to get rid of.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">I created some images showing details of one joint:</div>
<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><a href="https://imgur.com/a/oX7dZcE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://imgur.com/a/oX7dZcE</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">The surface is very flat, and the point density is ~ 5 mm in transversal and 20 mm in longitudinal direction (=driving direction).<br>The joints have a depth of ~40 mm (see images).</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">I tried out the elm filter, but I guess that the relative z-difference between the points is too little to mark them as noise.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">Any idea to filter the points in the joint with PDAL would be appreciated (I can also provide the LAZ pointcloud itself for experiments).</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">Thanks in advance and best regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">Roland</div>