Package: postgresql-10-pointcloud Source: pgpointcloud Version: 1.2.5-4.pgdg22.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 358 Depends: postgresql-10, libc6 (>= 2.14), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Homepage: https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pgpointcloud/postgresql-10-pointcloud_1.2.5-4.pgdg22.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 54964 SHA512: b2a556dfc6d539cd3a3dd3d23f23d74f14aa5eac873e11ed6e90658171b410cf9bff633446d710e4950198c57d39d7b1331d06757c56ebe737cf9c38d68d9d86 SHA256: 663b363aa3597bb4cf9a688eaf499cf5246c9ddfb78cad17aa3cf32760394810 SHA1: 7ea65ba181a7a14b095f176a2f9de9f32adee0a6 MD5sum: 4407422f3831d63a797a241ea174c713 Description: PostgreSQL extension for storing point cloud (LIDAR) data LIDAR sensors quickly produce millions of points with large numbers of variables measured on each point. The challenge for a point cloud database extension is efficiently storing this data while allowing high fidelity access to the many variables stored. . Much of the complexity in handling LIDAR comes from the need to deal with multiple variables per point. The variables captured by LIDAR sensors varies by sensor and capture process. Some data sets might contain only X/Y/Z values. Others will contain dozens of variables: X, Y, Z; intensity and return number; red, green, and blue values; return times; and many more. There is no consistency in how variables are stored: intensity might be stored in a 4-byte integer, or in a single byte; X/Y/Z might be doubles, or they might be scaled 4-byte integers. . PostgreSQL Pointcloud deals with all this variability by using a "schema document" to describe the contents of any particular LIDAR point. Each point contains a number of dimensions, and each dimension can be of any data type, with scaling and/or offsets applied to move between the actual value and the value stored in the database. The schema document format used by PostgreSQL Pointcloud is the same one used by the PDAL library.