PCL
PCL (Point Cloud Library) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.
PCLpy adds Python bindings to PCL.
Available
PCL is available in Puhti with following versions:
- 1.9.1
This version includes PCLpy version 0.12.0 with Python 3.8.
All included Python packages can be seen by using the command list-packages
.
PCL has been compiled with Boost, Eigen, FLANN and Qhull
If you have a need for an updated version, please contact us at servicedesk@csc.fi
Usage
PCL is included in the pcl module and can be loaded with
module load pcl
You can see all available binaries with the command
ls /appl/soft/geo/pcl/1.9.1/bin
Note, that not all PCL modules are available in PCLpy.
License and acknowledgement
PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use.
Please acknowdlege CSC and Geoportti in your publications, it is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write "The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support".
References
Last edited Thu Feb 3 2022