My Mission
Making point clouds as useful and easy to use as raster and vector data.Biography
Howard is a long time geospatial open source contributor who operates Hobu, Inc., in Iowa City, Iowa, which develops software for processing and managing lidar point clouds. It is the creator and primary contributor to PDAL – Point Data Abstraction Library, which is used for processing, extracting, translating lidar point clouds.
Other activities that Howard participates in include:
- OSGeo Charter Member (since 2006)
- OSGeo Board Member (2008 – 2010)
- GDAL fundraising and sponsorship lead
- GDAL PSC member
- PROJ PSC member
- MapServer PSC member
- GEOS PSC member
- Rtree maintainer
- libspatialindex maintainer
- USGS 3DEP AWS Public Dataset creator and maintainer
- MGRS creator and maintainer
- laspy creator
- PDAL creator and maintainer
- libLAS creator and maintainer
- laz-perf creator and maintainer
- https://spatialreference.org creator
- COPC specification author
- GeoJSON specification contributor
- ASPRS LAS specification contributor
- PROJJSON specification contributor
- Geospatial Conda Forge contributor (GDAL, PDAL, PROJ, others)
- LASzip contributor
