Lidar Point Cloud to DEM (or raster) with PDAL

This tutorial demonstrates how to take a raw point cloud, filter ground points, and convert the ground-filtered point cloud to a DEM. These processes are accomplished using the free and open-source PDAL tools.
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[@roysudasinghagedon5045]

Thanks a lot for this video! it is very informative. Can you perhaps educate us on how to create the DSMs using PDAL?

[@Franchyze923]

Good info, thanks for sharing

[@geospatialschool]

You bet

[@Lieti]

Thx for tutorial. I want to start to use PDAL, like alternative to lastools, white box tools, cloud compare, etc.
But I have question how to run it like multithread process to utilize full resources of CPU?

[@avinashbhat7403]

Thanks. I have a question, If I want to compare a scan with tonnes of other scans to check which matches most, can I use this as a starting point to vaguely compare and filter out only similar scans?

[@virkutisss3563]

Hey! could you tell us how to use full CPU, RAM power, also what if we have multiple LAZ files?? How to perform it to entire folder of LAZ files? THANKS!

[@I3lanket]

Is it possible to run pdal translate on an entire folder of LAS files using anaconda?

[@sayedehtaherehvakily3198]

Thank you for the video. It was really helpful. I followed all steps for installation and try to reset my dataset classification based on the video, but I faced this error: "Couldn't create filter stage of type 'filter. assign', you probably have a version of PDAL that didn't come with a plugin you're tying to load"!!! how can I fix the problem? thanks a lot.

[@geospatialschool]

I would recommend using an anaconda or miniconda python distribution and installing pdal from the conda-forge channel