PDAL

PDAL is an open source command line application for point cloud translations and processing.

Available

PDAL is available in the following versions:

• 2.10.1 - QGIS-3.44.9 module without pdal Python library, but with pdal_wrench, in Roihu
• 2.10.0 - geoconda-3.14.5 module with pdal Python library, in Roihu
• 2.7.2 - geoconda-3.11.9 module with pdal Python library, in Mahti
• 2.4.1 - geoconda-3.10.6 module with pdal Python library, in Mahti
• 2.3.0 - QGIS-3.31 module without pdal Python library, in LUMI

Usage

Using pdal

For using PDAL, any of the modules listed about must be activated first, check the linked pages for details.

You can test if pdal loaded successfully with following

pdal --help

Examples for using PDAL in Roihu.

Finnish National Land Survey's lidar data in Roihu

The Finnish national lidar data is already stored in Roihu, both the older stereo-classified version (/dataset/project_2019680/mml/laserkeilaus/) and the new automatically classified data (/dataset/project_2019679/). More info about locally stored spatial datasets.

License

PDAL is licensed with the BSD open source license. The full PDAL licence

Citation

PDAL contributors (2026). PDAL: The Point Data Abstraction Library, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2616780

Acknowledgement

Please acknowledge 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".

Installation

Please see the respectives versions module page: Geoconda , QGIS.

References

• PDAL homepage
• LAS file example

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