Day 3/100: 25M points in one file. Where to start?
FOSS4G 2019: Connor Manning & Adam Steer demo'd PDAL/Entwine. Hooked instantly.
Sequence matters: classify, filter, mesh, interpolate.
Filter too early → lose detail. Too late → noise corrupts.
570M points. 19h processing. Open-source JSON pipelines. All documented. Visualization: seconds. Processing: 19 hours.
https://blog.maptheclouds.com/learning/lidar-pdal-experiments-yosemite-valley













