A2HRT RCN Pre-Workshop To Do List
The Advancing the Analysis of High Resolution Topography (A2 HRT) workshop will emphasize hands-on training with open source software. On Monday and Tuesday we plan to split the workshop participants into two groups, one taking the PDAL training, and the other focused on lidR. The following day the groups will switch so that all participants get exposure to these software packages. The half day trainings on Wednesday morning will be elective - participants will be asked to choose between the topographic differencing and Landlab trainings. Please visit the main workshop page for the workshop agenda and other information.
In order to enable us to dive straight into hands-on training, we’re asking that you take a few minutes to install the software packages we’ll be using before the workshop begins on Monday morning. Please complete the following tasks:
1. Install PDAL and associated software
3. If you think you’ll choose the topographic differencing course on Wednesday morning, please also install QGIS.
4. Our assumption is that participants have a basic understanding of geospatial data concepts and in particular the point cloud and raster data types that are common with high resolution topography data. If you need a refresher, we encourage you to watch these two recent OpenTopography webinar presentations:
Introduction to Topographic Point Clouds
Introduction to Digital Elevation Models (DEMs, DTMs, DSMs, rasters)
5. Create an OpenTopography account if you do not already have one.
We hope that the installation process goes smoothly, but to address potential problems you may encounter, we’ll have a couple of optional help desk sessions:
lidR troubleshooting sessions:
- Friday 05/05 at 10 AM MDT via Zoom
- Sunday 05/07 in person in the hotel lobby at 5 pm.
PDAL troubleshooting sessions:
- Sunday 05/07 in person in the hotel lobby from 6:30-8:30 PM