Normalize colors with PDAL filters.programmable

normalize.py

import numpy as np

def normalize(i, o):
    o['Red'] = i['Red'] >> 8;
    o['Green'] = i['Green'] >> 8;
    o['Blue'] = i['Blue'] >> 8;
    return True

pipeline.json

{
  "pipeline":[
    "/opt/data/input.laz",
    {
      "type":"filters.programmable",
      "script":"/opt/data/normalize.py",
      "function":"normalize",
      "module":"anything"
    },
    {
      "type":"writers.las",
      "filename":"/opt/data/output.laz",
      "forward": "all"
    }
  ]
}

run.sh

# Presuming your file is called input.laz
docker run -it -v `pwd`:/opt/data pdal/pdal:1.2 pdal pipeline /opt/data/pipeline.json

# Now your output should be at output.laz