[pdal] LAS to PCD Translate Error Uint16

[Andrew Bell]

You should be able to divide the values by 256 (right shift 8 bits) in your
python script.

There is a similar example here:
https://www.pdal.io/stages/filters.programmable.html

Hope that helps.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Paul Sung-Pyo Park <ppark31 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to convert a LAS file to PCD using PDAL and have had
> this error pop up:
> "RuntimeError: Unable to fetch data and convert as requested:
> Red:uint16_t(50490) -> unsigned char"
>
> I am very new to PDAL as well as programming in general. Would there be a
> simple line I can add to my JSON pipeline file to filter uint16 to uint8?
> My current thought is to find a way to divide the input LAS by 65,535 then
> multiply by 255. However, not sure how I should implement this with my
> shallow knowledge. I am currently using Python with JSON inside the script
> as the pipeline.
> Thank You.
>
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> *Paul Park*
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