Point cloud resources

Containers/Specs

• entwine
  • Reference docs
• cesium
  • Parent company, commercial platform, marketing overload. See below for OS/developer resources
• Cloud Optimized Point Cloud

Sources

• usgs entwine
  • AWS partnership with USGS/entwine
  • 3DEP products, arn:aws:s3:::usgs-lidar contains original Raw LAZ (Compressed LAS) 1.4 3DEP
  • arn:aws:s3:::usgs-lidar-public has consumption ready Entwine tiles

Viewers

• potree
• potree-core
  • Lightweight fork without the noise
• cesiumJS
  • API Reference docs

Toochain

• EPT tools
• Potree Converter
  • large las dataset -> web consumable/streamable potree octree LOD
  • Build doesn't support darwin see fork for quick work around to build on macos
• pdal

Snippets

aws s3 sync --request-payer requester s3://usgs-lidar-public/USGS_LPC_WI_Winnebago_TL_2014_LAS_2019