diff --git a/workshop/create_image.sh b/workshop/create_image.sh
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+eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
+
+export ROOT_DIR="$PWD/PDAL Workshop Materials"
+# create root_directory for image
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR"
+
+# grab PDAL repo 
+git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL
+
+# build pdal docs
+conda create -n "pdal-docs" python=3.11 --yes --quiet
+conda activate pdal-docs
+mamba install -c conda-forge graphviz --yes --quiet
+pip install -r PDAL/doc/requirements.txt
+make -C PDAL/doc doxygen
+make -C PDAL/doc html
+make -C PDAL/doc latexpdf
+
+# copy workshop docs to image directory
+cp -R PDAL/doc/build/html "$ROOT_DIR/docs"
+cp PDAL/doc/build/latex/PDAL.pdf "$ROOT_DIR"/docs
+
+# copy needed datasets
+git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/PDAL/data
+cd data
+git lfs install
+git lfs pull
+cd ..   
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/batch_processing"
+cp PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/batch_processing/batch_srs_gdal.json \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/batch_processing"
+    
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/batch_processing/source"
+cp data/workshop/TM_551_101.laz \
+    data/workshop/TM_551_102.laz \
+    data/workshop/TM_552_101.laz \
+    data/workshop/TM_552_102.laz \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/batch_processing/source/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/clipping"
+cp data/workshop/autzen.laz \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation/clipping/clipping.json \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation/clipping/attributes.json \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation/clipping/attributes.vrt \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/clipping/"
+
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/colorization"
+cp data/workshop/casi-2015-04-29-weekly-mosaic.tif \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation/colorization/colorize.json \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/colorization/" 
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/denoising"
+cp PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation/denoising/denoise.json \
+    data/workshop/18TWK820985.laz \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/denoising/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/density"
+cp data/workshop/uncompahgre.laz "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/density/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/dtm"
+cp PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/dtm/gdal.json "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/dtm"
+    
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/ground"
+cp data/workshop/CSite1_orig-utm.laz "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/ground/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/rasterize"
+cp PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/rasterize/classification.json "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/rasterize"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/thinning"
+cp data/workshop/uncompahgre.laz \
+    data/workshop/uncompahgre.copc.laz \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/analysis/thinning/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/georeferencing"
+cp data/workshop/S1C1_csd_004.csd "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/georeferencing"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/python"
+cp PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/python/histogram.json \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/python/histogram.py \
+    data/workshop/athletic-fields.laz  \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/python/"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/translation"
+cp data/workshop/csite-dd.laz \
+    data/workshop/interesting.laz \
+    PDAL/doc/workshop/introduction/entwine.json \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/translation"
+
+cp data/workshop/interesting.las "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/translation"
+
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/info"
+cp data/workshop/interesting.las "$ROOT_DIR/exercises/info/"
+
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/windows" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.34.1-2.msi
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/windows" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-Windows-x86_64.exe
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/windows" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-1.7/jq-windows-amd64.exe
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/windows" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare_v2.13.beta_setup_x64.exe
+
+# grab macOS Installers
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://download.qgis.org/downloads/macos/qgis-macos-pr.dmg
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-1.7/jq-macos-amd64
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-1.7/jq-macos-arm64
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare-2.13.0-x86_64.dmg
+curl --output-dir "$ROOT_DIR/software/macOS" -C - -OL --create-dirs https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare-2.13.0-arm64.dmg
+
+# mamba env create -f environment-pdal_workshop_image.yml --yes --quiet
+conda create -n "pdal-gen-workshop-image" python=3.11 --yes --quiet
+conda activate pdal-gen-workshop-image
+mamba install -c conda-forge conda-pack awscli --yes --quiet
+
+# grab cool-lidar content
+aws s3 sync s3://cool-lidar "$ROOT_DIR/cool-lidar"
+
+# grab conda environments
+mkdir -p "$ROOT_DIR/software/conda_environments"
+
+# make docker environment 
+# NOTE: need to do this for x86_64 as well!
+docker image build -t pdal-workshop data/workshop/docker
+docker save -o "$ROOT_DIR/software/conda_environments/pdal-workshop_docker-arm64.tar.gz" pdal-workshop
+
+mkdir -p staging/conda_environments
+# NOTE: this needs to happen for every platform, not just osx-arm64 
+mamba env create --file "$PWD/PDAL/doc/workshop/environment.yml" -p "$PWD/staging/conda_environments" --yes --quiet
+conda-pack -p staging/conda_environments -o "$ROOT_DIR/software/conda_environments/pdal-workshop_osx-arm64.tar.gz" -f
+
+CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 mamba env create --file "$PWD/PDAL/doc/workshop/environment.yml" -p "$PWD/staging/conda_environments" --yes --quiet
+conda-pack -p staging/conda_environments -o "$ROOT_DIR/software/conda_environments/pdal-workshop_osx-x86_64.tar.gz" -f
diff --git a/workshop/docker/Dockerfile b/workshop/docker/Dockerfile
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+FROM condaforge/miniforge3:latest as build
+MAINTAINER Howard Butler <howard@hobu.co>
+
+ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+
+COPY environment.yml .
+RUN mamba env create -f environment.yml
+
+RUN mamba install -c conda-forge conda-pack
+
+RUN conda-pack -n "pdal-workshop" -o /tmp/env.tar && \
+  mkdir /venv && cd /venv && tar xf /tmp/env.tar && \
+  rm /tmp/env.tar
+
+RUN /venv/bin/conda-unpack
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim AS runtime
+
+COPY --from=build /venv /venv
+
+SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
+ENTRYPOINT source /venv/bin/activate
diff --git a/workshop/docker/environment.yml b/workshop/docker/environment.yml
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+name: pdal-workshop
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.11
+  - pdal=2.6.2
+  - python-pdal
+  - gdal
+  - untwine
+  - geopandas
+  - jq
+
diff --git a/workshop/workshop_zip.sh b/workshop/workshop_zip.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# curl https://pdal.io/PDAL.pdf -o PDAL-docs.pdf
-
-git clone -n --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL
-cd PDAL
-git sparse-checkout set --no-cone doc
-git checkout
-cd ..
-
-git clone -n --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 https://github.com/PDAL/data
-cd data
-git sparse-checkout set --no-cone workshop
-git checkout
-cd ..
-
-mkdir -p exercises exercises/info
-mkdir -p software software/MacOS software/Windows software/Linux
-
-# Moving docs
-mv PDAL/doc/workshop/manipulation exercises
-mv exercises/manipulation exercises/analysis
-mv PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/meshing PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/rasterize \
- PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/dtm exercises/analysis
-mv PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/batch_processing PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/georeferencing \
- PDAL/doc/workshop/generation/python PDAL/doc/workshop/introduction exercises
-mv exercises/introduction exercises/translation
-mv exercises/translation/metadata.rst exercises/translation/single-point.rst \
- exercises/translation/near.rst exercises/info
-# Moving data
-mkdir -p exercises/batch_processing/source
-mv data/workshop/TM_551_101.laz data/workshop/TM_551_102.laz data/workshop/TM_552_101.laz \
- data/workshop/TM_552_102.laz exercises/batch_processing/source
-mv data/workshop/autzen.laz exercises/analysis/clipping
-mv data/workshop/casi-2015-04-29-weekly-mosaic.tif exercises/analysis/colorization
-mv data/workshop/18TWK820985.laz exercises/analysis/denoising
-cp data/workshop/uncompahgre.laz exercises/analysis/density
-mv data/workshop/CSite1_orig-utm.laz exercises/analysis/ground
-mv data/workshop/uncompahgre.laz data/workshop/uncompahgre.copc.laz exercises/analysis/thinning
-mv data/workshop/S1C1_csd_004.csd exercises/georeferencing
-mv data/workshop/athletic-fields.laz exercises/python
-mv data/workshop/csite-dd.laz data/workshop/interesting.laz exercises/translation
-cp data/workshop/interesting.las exercises/translation
-mv data/workshop/interesting.las exercises/info
-
-# software download
-cd software/Windows
-curl https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.32.0-1.msi -o QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.32.0-1.msi 
-curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe -o Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe
-curl https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare_v2.13.alpha_setup_x64.exe -o CloudCompare_v2.13.alpha_setup_x64.exe
-cd ..
-cd MacOS
-curl https://qgis.org/downloads/macos/qgis-macos-pr.dmg -o qgis-macos-pr.dmg
-curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -o Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
-curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh -o Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
-curl https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare-2.13.0-x86_64.dmg -o CloudCompare-2.13.0-x86_64.dmg
-curl https://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/CloudCompare-2.13.0-arm64.dmg -o CloudCompare-2.13.0-arm64.dmg
-cd ..
-cd Linux
-curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -o Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
-cd ../..
-
-chmod -R +w data PDAL exercises software
-rm -rf data PDAL
-
-zip_filename="PDAL_Workshop_complete.zip"
-zip -r "$zip_filename" exercises software #PDAL-docs.pdf
-
-rm -rf exercises software #PDAL-docs.pdf
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