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USGS LiDAR Links

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1https://pdal.s3.amazonaws.com/workshop/PDAL-workshop.pdfPDAL workshop tutorial
2https://pdal.io/PDAL.pdfPDAL whole tutorial. Contains a lot more comprehensive examples.
3adamrehn/mergetiff: Library and command-line tool to merge GeoTiff files using GDAL (Python Version) (github.com)Python library for merging tifs. Also has CLI options
4readers.ept — pdal.ioEPT readers in pdal sent by USGS people. Only facilitates reading single ept.json at a time.
5USGS & EntwineUSGS entwine.io. Website to view visualizations of a map
6Extracting buildings and roads from AWS Open Data using Amazon SageMaker - AWS Machine Learning BlogBuilding footprints tutorial by AWS
7Entwine Point Tile — entwine.ioInformation about the fields contained in ept.json
8Reading data from EPT — pdal.io
9USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds - Registry of Open Data on AWSLanding page for USGS LiDAR data. Contains link to the AWS tutorial, visualization library, etc
10hobu/usgs-lidar: AWS Entwine Point Tiles USGS LiDAR Public Dataset GitHub repoHoward Butler (Creator of PDAL) git repo for USGS LiDAR
11USGS LiDAR Data DictionaryUSGS LiDAR Data Dictionary. Contains information about the fields in laz files