Kurt Menke (Septima) & Saber Raszmjooei (Lutra Consulting)
This workshop will teach you how to work with point cloud data in QGIS. You will learn how to visualize point clouds in both 2D and 3D, style them to highlight important features, and process and edit them to extract meaningful information. The workshop will cover topics such as:

• Loading and displaying point clouds in 2D.
• Viewing point clouds in 3D.
• Creating Virtual Point Clouds (VPCs).
• Using Point Cloud Processing Tools.
• Editing Point Clouds.
• Using PDAL Wrench

Software:
To get the most out of this workshop you are encouraged to install the nightly release of QGIS (v 3.43.0). Do this in the week prior to the conference. There are several important enhancements to working with point clouds which will be included in the next stable release of QGIS (v. 3.44), later in June. If you can run the nightly release, you will have access to these important features. Minimally, you will need the latest stable release - QGIS 3.42 Münster.

• If using Windows, you can download it from the official QGIS website (https://qgis.org/download/) or by using the OSGeo4W installer.

• For MacOS users, try to download and install the DMG file from this pull request (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/60039).

• For Debian based users, you can use QGIS Flatpack or change the repo.

Note 1: If you will be using a corporate laptop where permissions can be problematic, consider getting these installations completed with IT before you travel to the conference.

Note 2: It is recommended that you also bring a tablet. There is an accompanying step-by-step tutorial. Having a tablet will allow you to read the tutorial on your tablet while working on your laptop.

Data
We will provide the data for the workshop.