[pdal] [writers.gdal] How to specify the output data type as Float32?

[Andrew Bell]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:12 AM, GUIMMARA, Sébastien (External) <
sebastien.guimmara.external at airbus.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll use a workaround for the moment
> (gdal_translate) to convert the data types.
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> Sébastien
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> *De :* Andrew Bell [mailto:andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com]
> *Envoyé :* lundi 13 mars 2017 15:52
> *À :* GUIMMARA, Sébastien (External)
> *Cc :* pdal at lists.osgeo.org
> *Objet :* Re: [pdal] [writers.gdal] How to specify the output data type
> as Float32?
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> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:04 AM, GUIMMARA, Sébastien (External) <
> sebastien.guimmara.external at airbus.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I have successfully converted a point cloud to a GTiff raster using pdal
> pipeline and I noticed that PDAL creates rasters of Float64 data type.
> Unfortunately, the next step in our data processing only accepts 32-bit
> data types. Is there a way to specify this data type in the pipeline using
> the gdalopts parameter ?
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> No.  This is an open issue that I hope to fix soon.
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> Moreover, the exact syntax of the gdalopts parameter is unclear. Is it a
> single string encapsulating all options ? e.g:
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> "gdalopts":"KEY0=VALUE0,KEY1=VALUE1,..."
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> It *should* work, but apparently there's a bug.  The arguments aren't
> passed along.  I'll fix shortly.
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I've fixed the issue of gdalopts being ignored in the master branch.
Please let me know if have other problems.

-- 
Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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