This is an introductory mail about Opticks which can be helpful to the people working in the field of GIS, remote sensing as well as image processing. Please share it to the related mailing lists.
Introduction: Opticks is one of the best remote sensing application, supporting multiple imagary and video formats including SAR, multi-spectral, hyperspectral and other remote sensing data. And above all, it is totally free to use and develop. Background: Opticks has an interesting history. It started as a collaborative effort of Ball Aerospace Corp. and *US Department of Defense*, and was later open-sourced in 2007. Over the time it has developed a large developer community. (refer: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9832218-16.html) Here are some highlights from the home page at http://opticks.org : · Free and open source · Supports the following file formats: NITF 2.0/2.1, GeoTIFF, ENVI, ASPAM/PAR, CGM, DTED, Generic RAW, ESRI Shapefile, HDF5, AVI, MPEG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP · Zoom, pan, rotate spatially large datasets · Quickly layer GIS features, annotations, results, and other information over your data to provide context · Many image display controls such as colormap, histogram, transparency, etc. · Support for datasets larger than four gigabytes · Analysts can quickly combine steps using graphical wizards · Support for processing data in its native interleave of BIP, BSQ or BIL . Python scripting is also supported · Get extensions to drop in new capability. . Active community at mailing list and IRC. Also presence at Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/opticksproject>and Twitter <http://twitter.com/opticksproject> . . Real world use in academia: Nate Jennings , professor at American River College uses Opticks as part of its GIS course (http://jenningsplanet.com/). There are many other points in the Feature Tour at: http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticks/Feature+Tour+-+Your+Data It can be used by academia for courses related to GIS and remote sensing and even image processing. The extensions add great deal of functionality to Opticks. I have myself created various image processing filters for Opticks as part of my GSoC project<http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticksExt/Photography+processing+tools>. For any one interested in these field should definitely give a try to Opticks Pratik Anand GSoC 2011 developer for Opticks<http://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/pratikone/2001> -- Pratik Anand website:http://www.pratikanand.com Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone Facebook:facebook.com/pratikone IRC nick: pratikone _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
