[GIS] Converting .LAS to .PCD file using CloudCompare

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I want to convert a LAS file to PCD format using CloudCompare software. How I can do that?

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Latest stable release (2.10.2 Zephyrus) supports the Point Cloud Libary format (.pcd). Load the LAS file, hit the Save Button and select .pcd. But it looks like there are some problems with saving point clouds that have a high point count.

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[GIS] Converting .las to .pcd file using PDAL

The PDAL PCD Writer can write .pcd files. For it to work, you must have linked the PCL libraries at compile time. The PDAL OSGeo4W build does not have PCL support. If you are unable to build PDAL with PCL support yourself, one possibility is to use PDAL's Docker containers to achieve your task -- those have PCL linked.

Then, simply run pdal translate:

Using your own PDAL build with PCL linked:

pdal translate input.las output.pcd

With Docker:

docker run -v /c/Users/hobu/:/data pdal/pdal:1.5 ^
       pdal translate /data/input.las /data/output.pcd

QGIS – Converting TIFF Files to LAS Files

You cannot convert geotiff to las, however, LASTools las2las allows converting ASCII (.asc) format files to las format (source). For example:

las2las -i in_data.asc -o out_data.las

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