Michael, we can look at these issues during our visit at ASU later this month - Vasek has done quite a bit of work on this and can give you an overview on what the best approach would be - see here abstract of his talk at FOSS4G NA
https://2016.foss4g-na.org/session/grass-gis-loves-lidar Helena On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> wrote: > Unfortunately, the very important "ground" module (filtering for ground > surface points) requires PCL, but perhaps not VTK which may be mainly for > the "view"/visualization modules and functions. JSON is only needed for the > "pipeline" module > > Michael > > ____________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science > Arizona State University > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > > > On Apr 30, 2016, at 4:05 PM, grass-dev-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: > > *From: *Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> > *Subject: **Re: [GRASS-dev] grass 7.2 planning* > *Date: *April 30, 2016 at 2:41:24 PM MST > *To: *<grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> > > > On 04/30/2016 11:22 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > > Note that PDAL needs tons of extra packages including gl2ps, hexer, > jsoncpp, laszip, netcdf-cxx, nitro, openni, pcl, points2grid, qhull, > tinyxml, vtk, boost-date-time, boost-system. > > > You only need all those dependencies if need all the PDAL plugins, core > PDAL only requires GDAL, the other dependencies are optional. > > The pdal Debian package only enables the plugins for which the > dependencies are available (greyhound, icebridge, python & sqlite). The > PCL plugin pulls in the enormous and problematic VTK dependency chain > and has been disabled in the Debian package despite the dependencies > being available. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Helena Mitasova Professor Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University 1125 Jordan Hall NCSU Box 8208 Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/ http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/ email: hmit...@ncsu.edu ph: 919-513-1327 (no voicemail) fax 919 515-7802
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