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<p>We are pleased to announce that Orfeo ToolBox 6.2.0 is out
!</p>
<p>As usual, ready-to-use <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/download/" target="_blank">binary packages</a> are available for
Windows, Linux and Mac OS X:</p>
<p>You can also checkout the source directly with git:</p>
<pre>git clone <a class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://git@git.orfeo-toolbox.org/git/otb.git" target="_blank">https://git@git.orfeo-toolbox.<wbr>org/git/otb.git</a> OTB -b release-6.2</pre>
<p>We welcome your feedback and requests, and encourage you to
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=fr#%21forum/otb-users/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">join the OTB
community and mailing list</a>. If you think you face a
bug, please <a href="https://bugs.orfeo-toolbox.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report it on
Mantis.</a></p>
<p>As we made an exception to our 3 months release schedule
(OTB 6.0 is now 6 months old), we know that you are all
looking forward to updating your favorite tool. And there is
indeed a <a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Requests_for_Changes#OTB-6.2.0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">lot of new things</a> in
this new version. In addition, a total of 47 reported bugs
have been fixed. You can check the <a href="https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb.git/blob/5926aca233ff8a0fb11af1a342a6f5539cd5e376:/RELEASE_NOTES.txt" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Release Notes</a> .</p>
<h2>Better help, doc and logs</h2>
<p>Thanks to <a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_Changes-91:_Better_error_messages" target="_blank">RFC 91</a>, errors have been made clearer
everywhere in OTB. For instance, when OTB 6.0 used to say:</p>
<pre>2017 May 16 18:07:49 : Application.logger (CRITICAL) Invalid image filename blabla.tif.
2017 May 16 18:07:49 : Application.logger (FATAL) The following error occurred during application execution : /home/otbval/Dashboard/src/OTB<wbr>/Modules/Wrappers/ApplicationE<wbr>ngine/include/otbWrapperInputI<wbr>mageParameter.txx:79:
itk::ERROR: InputImageParameter(0x2158710)<wbr>: No input image or filename detected...</pre>
<p>OTB 6.2 now says:</p>
<pre>2017-05-16 18:07:49 (FATAL): Cannot open file blabla.tif. The file does not exist.</pre>
<p><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_Changes-96:_Long_help_in_otbcli" target="_blank">RFC 96</a> takes care of improving the
display of help in command-line mode. There is now a <b>-help</b>
switch that allows to display the same help as in the
documentation tab of GUI applications, and this switch also
allows to get help for parameters:</p>
<pre>$ ./bin/otbcli SampleSelection -help instats sampler vec
MISSING -instats <string> Input Statistics (mandatory)
Input file storing statistics (XML format)</pre>
<pre>-sampler <string> Sampler type [periodic/random] (mandatory, default value is periodic)
Type of sampling (periodic, pattern based, random)
MISSING -vec <string> Input vectors (mandatory)
Input geometries to analyse</pre>
<p>Meanwhile, we started a background task for improving the
content of the documentation itself. With a single sprint of
one day, we already improved greatly the documentation of 19
applications, which can are listed in<a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-103:_Improve_OTB_Applications_documentation_%28part_1%29" target="_blank"> RFC 103</a>. We are planning to continue
this work in future releases until all applications have
been screened for documentation improvements.</p>
<p>Other improvements in this section includes the logging for
composite application (<a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-105:_Simplify_logging_of_composite_applications" target="_blank">RFC 105</a>), and an explicit open-source
licence for the Cookbook (<a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_Changes-94:_CookBook_licensed_under_cc-by-sa" target="_blank">RFC 94</a>).</p>
<h2>Improvements and refactoring of several applications</h2>
<p>We re-factor several applications following discussions
during last <a href="http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb-user-days-2017-recap/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">OTB User Days:</a></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p id="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534firstHeading" class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534firstHeading" lang="en"><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_Changes-97:_KMeansClassification_reimplemented" rel="noopener" target="_blank">KMeansClassification</a>:
now a composite application of sampling/classification
applications which use internally the KMeans
implementation available in the Shark library</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534firstHeading" lang="en"><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_Changes-99:_Refactor_ExtractROI_application" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ExtractROI</a>: allow
to define different types of ROI (coordinates in
latitude/longitude), give point of interest and a
radius, use a reference vector…</p>
</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-106:_All-in-one_LSMS_application" rel="noopener" target="_blank">All in one LSMS
segmentation application</a>: new composite application <i><b>LargeScaleMeanShif<wbr>t</b>
</i>which combines all steps of Large Scale Segmentation
in one application!</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-107:_Refactor_Convert_application" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Convert </a>: new RGB
mode to select input bands (can be read also
automaticcally from the metadata)</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-109:_Refactor_PixelValue_application" rel="noopener" target="_blank">PixelValue</a>: Add new
way to input pixel position</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_changes-115:_Refactoring_of_DownloadSRTMTiles" rel="noopener" target="_blank">DownloadSRTMTiles</a>:
complete revamp of the application which allows to define
tiles area from images/vector/list of tiles, better
handling of corner cases</li>
</ul>
<h2>Improved build, superbuild, and packages</h2>
<p>There is now only one binary packages per platform which
includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>All in one: All OTB applications, Monteverdi and all
official remote modules which are now packaged in the
same archive (no more distinction between OTB and
OTB-Contrib package)</li>
<li>OTB XDK: OTB package contains now headers and
development files which allows to compile and link your
source code with OTB.</li>
</ul>
<p>Moreover, superbuilds now contains the latest OpenJpeg,
Gdal and NetCDF5.</p>
<h2 id="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534firstHeading" class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534firstHeading" lang="en">Welcome
to Daniel McInerney</h2>
<div><span class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534il">We’ve got one new
committer to OTB! Daniel is a researcher working for
Coillte Teoranta – the Irish State Forestry Board and a
user of OTB for a long time</span>. His first pull request
includes a lot of great improvements in the documentation.</div>
<div>I encourage anybody interested to get more involved in
OTB to join discussions and become part of the team.</div>
<div>
<h1 class="m_-1890063138218121168m_4839423964715291534title">Orfeo ToolBox
Graduates OSGeo incubation!</h1>
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<div>OTB has graduated in July from incubation and is now a
full fledged <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">OSGeo project</a>!</div>
<div>Graduating incubation includes fulfilling requirements
for transparent community operation code provenance, and
general good project operation. It allows OSGeo to recommend
Orfeo ToolBox as example sustainable open source software,
giving users and our community confidence in the project and
the project team. It is a great honor for us to become an
official member of the OSGeo community.</div>
<div>Thanks to everyone who helps during the process.<br>
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<div>OTB Dev Team</div>
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