[pdal] libLAS to PDAL, how to write a LAS header from scratch in PDAL?

Andrew Bell andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 06:20:17 PDT 2021


Hi Mathieu,

You don't need to do anything. PDAL will write a LAS file with a properly
constructed header. You can use options on the LAS writers if you want to
alter some of the header field data.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:04 AM Mathieu Poulin <
mathieu.poulin at mvtgeosolutions.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am transitionning to PDAL from libLAS and so far almost everything has
> been easy to figure out. There is however one thing that I can not find any
> instructions on how to do, and that is how to write a LAS header in PDAL.
>
> I've asked the question on Stackoverflow before finding this mailing list,
> so here is a link to it:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68986302/writing-las-header-with-pdal-in-c.
> Hopefully, someone here has the answer that I am looking for.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>  - Mathieu Poulin
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68986302/writing-las-header-with-pdal-in-c>
> Writing LAS header with PDAL in C++ - Stack Overflow
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68986302/writing-las-header-with-pdal-in-c>
> I am working on an application that writes LAS files from scratch based on
> lidar data. Previously, the application was built with LibLAS and it worked
> quite well. However, LibLAS has been discontin...
> stackoverflow.com
> **
>
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