I am a regular committer to PDAL and an occasional contributor to PCL.

Medium Posts

• Crossing the Streams
• Using PCL Tools
• FOSS4G-NA 2016
• PDAL at the OSGeo Code Sprint

Print

• B. Chambers, J. Durand, N. Gans, and S. Hutchinson, “Dynamic feature point allocation using multiresolutional critical-point filters,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct. 2003, pp. 504–509.

• B. Chambers, “Point- and window-based matching in images using critical-point filters,” M.S. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2004.

• B. Chambers and S. Hutchinson, “Integrated tracking and control using condensation-based critical-point matching,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct. 2004, pp. 949–956.

• B. Chambers, R. Ansari, D. Campbell, and W. Reynolds, “Wavelet-based target detection using multiscale directional analysis,” in Proc. SPIE 6566, 656608, Apr. 2007.

• R. Ansari, D. Fennell, A. Bagci, W. Reynolds, and B. Chambers, “Efficient structures for image decomposition using directional filter banks,” in Proc. SPIE 6566, 65660Y, Apr. 2007.

Presentations

• B. Chambers, "PDAL Algorithm Development Deep Dive," FOSS4G-NA 2018, May 2018. (slides) (binder)
• B. Chambers, "Point Cloud Filters & Pipelines in PDAL," FOSS4G 2017, Aug. 2017 (video)
• B. Chambers, "Filtering point clouds with PDAL and PCL," FOSS4G-NA 2016, May. 2016 (slides)
• B. Chambers, "Open Source Lidar Software," Mil-OSS WG4, Oct. 2012.

Tutorials

• Using PDAL with CMake

• Reading with PDAL

• Writing with PDAL

• Filtering data with PCL

• Identifying ground returns using ProgressiveMorphologicalFilter segmentation

• Ground Filter Tutorial

• Calculating Normalized Heights

• Performing Poisson Sampling of Point Clouds Using Dart Throwing

• Writing a filter

• Writing a kernel

• Writing a reader

• Writing a writer