PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Now, we copy data from the point cloud into our table. Refer to the Importing LiDAR data recipe in this chapter to verify the pointcloud extension object representation:

$ pdal pipeline uas_points.json

This data, as viewed in MeshLab (http://www.meshlab.net/) from the .ply file, is pretty interesting:

The original data is color infrared imagery, so vegetation shows up red, and farm fields and roads as gray. Note the bright colors in the sky; those are camera position points that we'll need to filter out.

The next step is to generate orthographic imagery from this data.