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# Introduction

After the basic set up the workshop is divided into three 45 to 90 min sections with a final project at the end.

1. {ref}`lidar-introduction`
2. {ref}`Introduction to PDAL <about>`
3. {ref}`software`
4. {ref}`basic-info`
5. {ref}`manipulation`
6. {ref}`generation`
7. {ref}`capstone`

## Materials

### USB Drive

A companion USB drive containing everything needed to do the workshop without
internet connectivity:

```{image} ./images/agenda-usb-drive.jpg
:width: 400
```

```{note}
A drive image is available for download at
<https://pdal.s3.amazonaws.com/workshop/PDAL-Workshop-complete.zip>.
```

Included in the USB driver are:

- Installers for [QGIS], [CloudCompare], and [mambaforge].
- Conda environments for macOS (x86_64 and arm64) and Windows platforms with needed dependencies
- Copy of PDAL documentation
- Data needed for examples
- Collection of [cool-lidar] datasets

[cloudcompare]: https://www.danielgm.net/cc/
[cool-lidar]: https://github.com/hobuinc/cool-lidar
[mambaforge]:https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#miniforge3
[qgis]: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/
