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Command-Line Interface

Occulus provides a CLI for common point cloud operations.

pip install occulus
occulus --help

Commands

Command Description
occulus info <file> Print cloud statistics
occulus classify <file> -o <out> Ground classification (CSF or PMF)
occulus filter <file> -o <out> Voxel downsample, SOR, radius filter
occulus convert <file> -o <out> Format conversion (LAS/LAZ/PLY/XYZ)
occulus dem <file> -o <out> DEM rasterization
occulus register <src> <tgt> -o <out> ICP registration
occulus tile <file> -o <dir> Spatial tiling

Examples

# Print info about a LAS file
occulus info survey.laz

# Classify ground points
occulus classify survey.laz -o ground.laz --algorithm csf --platform aerial

# Generate a DEM at 1m resolution
occulus dem ground.laz -o terrain.npy --resolution 1.0 --method idw

# Tile a large dataset into 500m chunks
occulus tile survey.laz -o tiles/ --tile-size 500