Manuel,
ORFEO Toolbox does sound like a positive addition for OSGeo-Live. Thank
you for considering being included.
A few questions before moving forward:
1. OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
than libraries that are included into other applications. Does ORFEO
Toolbox have a user interface (possibly command line interface) that a
user can interact with and try out ORFEO Toolbox?
2. OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained.
Can ORFEO Toolbox run in 512 Meg or RAM?
How much disk space will be required to install ORFEO Toolbox and a
suitable example application.
What datasets would be required for a demonstration? Can you make use of
the naturalearth dataset already installed, or would you need something
else?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets
3. You mention that ORFEO is in OSGeo incubation. I can't see ORFEO
listed at http://osgeo.org . Have you started incubation, or are you on
the waiting list to start incubation?
4. Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. Do you have a bug
free, stable release, which has been rolled out to production in a
number of locations?
5. I notice the CeCILL licence you use is not listed on OSI list of
licences. Has license been discussed and resolved on the
OSGeo-Incubation list?
6. Do you have a person (maybe yourself?) prepared to volunteer to be
the OSGeo-Live representative, who will take responsibility for liaising
between the project and OSGeo-Live and make sure that scripts and
documentation are updated for each release.
On 11/01/11 21:38, Manuel Grizonnet wrote:
Dear all,
I am part of the OTB development team, we would like to know if there
is possibility to open discussion for the integration of OTB in the
OSGeo Live DVD.
ORFEO Toolbox library is develop by the French Space Agency (CNES)
<http://www.cnes.fr> in the frame of the Methodological Part of the
ORFEO Accompaniment Program
<http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/A_prog_accomp.htm> to prepare, accompany
and promote the use and the exploitation of the images derived from
Pleiades (PHR) <http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/> and Cosmo-Skymed (CSK)
systems.
ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) is distributed as an open source library of image
processing algorithms. OTB is implemented in C++ and is mainly based
on the medical image processing library ITK <http://www.itk.org/> and
offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image processing
in general and for high spatial resolution images in particular. OTB
is distributed under a free software licenseCeCILL
<http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.html> (similar
to GPL). The library is intensively tested on several platforms as
Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. (http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/)
The library use also other OSGeo Open Source softwares : GDAL, Mapnik,
PostGIS...
Most functionalities are also adapted to process huge images using
streaming and multi-threading as often as possible.
Among other, OTB provides a number of heavily documented
functionalities as
* image access: optimized read/write access for most of remote
sensing image formats, meta-data access, visualization;
* filtering: blurring, denoising, enhancement;
* feature extraction: interest points, alignments, lines,
radiometric indices...;
* image segmentation: region growing, watershed, level sets;
* classification: K-means, SVM, Markov random fields;
* change detection.
There are also related project based on the ORFEO Toolbox:
-OTB-Applications : provide command line interface based on OTB
filters. This CLI are also provided as standalone application (in
FLTKL or QT) and also as QGIS plugin.
-Monteverdi : software based on the ORFEO Toolbox library which allows
building processing chains by selecting modules from a set of menus.
It supports raster and vector data and integrates most of the already
existing OTB applications. The architecture takes advantage of the
streaming and multi-threading capabilities of the OTB pipeline. It
also uses cool features as processing on demand and automagic file
format I/O.The modular architecture provide acces to lot's of OTB
functionnalities : Image Geometry, image filetring and feature
extraction, learning methods, SAR algorithms...
The toolbox (and also related projects) are also provided as binary
packages for Windows, Mac and recently also on Linux Platforms. An OTB
repository is available on launchpad.net <http://launchpad.net> for
Ubuntu platforms (9.10,10.4,10.10) and also for OpenSuse platforms.
Here you can ind detailed informations about access to the source code
or to binary packages : http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/download.html
A live DVD is available for OTB (very handy for demonstration or
education purposes). It's available at:
http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otblive/ <http://otb/../otblive/> It was
not updated since the last release 3.8.
OTB is under incubation for OSGeo Project.
Do not hesitate if you need further informations about the project.
Best regards,
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