pcsky: point cloud to raster tools

pcsky Transform UAV point clouds to hemispherical images to extract Sky View Factor, LAI and other canopy parameters. Point cloud equivalent to CanpoyGapAnalyzer, which was designed for real world images.
pcrasterize Rasterize pointclouds a long an axis to generate basic orthoimages, DEM and density plots.

The tools currently read large points point clouds provided in PLY format. Colors are supported.

Dependencies:

to build run make (to build tests as well, run make tests afterwards)

Provide the following arguments to run the program

./bin/pcsky [pointcloud.ply] c=[X,Y,Z] r=[radius] [outputfilepattern]

The arguments are

[pointcloud.ply] name of the input pointcloud
c=[X,Y,Z] camera position (only points above camera Z position will be considered)
r=[radius] radius of the hemispherical image [in pixels]
[outputfilepattern] path and basename for the output files

Example

./bin/pcsky foo.ply c=1.0,2.0,-3.0 r=256 ./output/bar

Provide the following arguments to run the program

./bin/pcrasterize [pointcloud.ply] b=[xmin,xamx,ymin,ymax,zmin,zmax] c=[cellsize] [Axis] [outputfilepattern]

The arguments are

[pointcloud.ply] name of the input pointcloud
b=[xmin,xamx,ymin,ymax,zmin,zmax] bounding box (only points above camera Z position will be considered)
c=[cellsize] cellsize to summarize(in pc units)
[Axis] axis to project along. Accepted values are X, Y and Z (default).
[outputfilepattern] path and basename for the output files

Example

./bin/pcrasterize foo.ply b=625250,625680,254040,254450,400,700 c=0.25 Z ./output/bar

This project is under heavy development and may not yet produce stable results.

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