.. _introduction:

Introduction
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After the basic set up the workshop is divided into three 45 to 90 min sections with a final project at the end.

1. :ref:`lidar-introduction`

2. :ref:`Introduction to PDAL <about>`

3. :ref:`software`

4. :ref:`basic-info`

5. :ref:`manipulation`

6. :ref:`generation`

7. :ref:`capstone`



Materials
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USB Drive
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A companion USB drive containing everything needed to do the workshop without
internet connectivity:

.. image:: ./images/agenda-usb-drive.jpg
    :width: 400

.. note::

    A drive image is available for download at
    https://pdal.s3.amazonaws.com/workshop/PDAL-Workshop-complete.zip.


Included in the USB driver are:

* Installers for QGIS_, CloudCompare_, and mambaforge_.
* Conda environments for macOS (x86_64 and arm64) and Windows platforms with needed dependencies
* Copy of PDAL documentation
* Data needed for examples
* Collection of cool-lidar_ datasets

.. _QGIS: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/
.. _mambaforge: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#mambaforge
.. _cool-lidar: https://github.com/hobuinc/cool-lidar
.. _CloudCompare: https://www.danielgm.net/cc/
