Beginning in PDAL 1.0.0, a Python extension to execute pipelines and read its output as a numpy array is available.
To install it need to compile and install PDAL and then install the PDAL Python extension
In the source code of PDAL there is a python
folder, you have to enter
there and run
python setup.py build
# this should be run as administrator/super user
python setup.py install
The second method to install the PDAL Python extension is to use pip or easy_install, you have to run the command as administrator.
pip install PDAL
Note
To install pip please read here