NAME

       pdal - PDAL application

SYNOPSIS

       pdal <options>
       pdal <command> <command options>

DESCRIPTION

       PDAL contains consists of a single application, called pdal.  The pdal application currently has the fol‐
       lowing subcommands:

       • delta

       • density

       • diff

       • ground

       • info

       • merge

       • pcl

       • pipeline

       • random

       • split

       • tindex

       • translate

       • view

       Applications are run by invoking the pdal application along with the command name:

       $ pdal info myfile.las
       $ pdal translate input.las output.las
       $ pdal pipeline --stdin < myxml.xml

       Help  for  each command can be retrieved via the --help switch.  The --drivers and --options switches can
       tell you more about particular drivers and their options:

       $ pdal info --help
       $ pdal translate --drivers
       $ pdal pipeline --options writers.las

       Additional driver-specific options may be specified by using a namespace-prefixed option name.  For exam‐
       ple, it is possible to set the LAS day of year at translation time with the following option:

       $ pdal translate \
           --writers.las.creation_doy="42" \
           input.las \
           output.las

              Note

              Driver specific options can be identified using the pdal info--options invocation.

       See ⟨http://pdal.io/apps.html⟩ for more detail.

OPTIONS

       --debug
              Sets the output level to 3 (option deprecated)

       -v, --verbose
              Sets the output level (0-8)

       --drivers
              List available drivers

       -h, --help
              Display help text

       --list-commands
              List available commands

       --version
              Show program version

       --options=<driver name>
              Show options for specified driver (or 'all')

                                                10 February 2020                                         pdal(1)