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PCL

PCL (Point Cloud Library) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

PCLpy adds Python bindings to PCL.

Available

PCL is available in Puhti with following versions:

  • 1.12.1 without PCLpy
  • 1.9.1 with PCLpy version 0.12.0 with Python 3.8.

All included Python packages can be seen by using the command list-packages.

Usage

PCL is included in the pcl module and can be loaded with

module load pcl

You can see all available binaries with the command depending on the version:

ls /appl/soft/geo/pcl/1.12.1/bin
or 
ls /appl/soft/geo/pcl/1.9.1/bin

Note, that PCL/1.9.1 includes less PCL modules.

License and acknowledgement

PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use.

PCL citation

Please acknowdlege CSC and Geoportti in your publications, it is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write "The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support".

References