[Live-demo] ORFEO Toolbox in OSGeoLive?

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Fri Jan 14 12:55:59 EST 2011


As I mentioned before I already committed an initial script to svn.
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_otb.sh

Manuel, if you sign up or have an osgeo account, let us know your
username and we'll get you access to the svn.

Things the script needs:
Menu items (I suggest a menu item with a subfolder for all the GUI tools
to be launched from the sub-menu)
A 2nd script for grabbing your dataset (I suggest you collaborate with
Massimo on a small high res imagery example)
Refinement to drop extra packages we don't need.
etc...

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/14/2011 01:04 AM, Manuel Grizonnet wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> I addes an entry in the #Status document about orfeo toolbox.
> 
> The install script for OTB  will be very simple I think :
> 
> *sudo aptitude install add-apt-repository
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otb/orfeotoolbox-stable*
> *sudo aptitude update  *
> *sudo aptitude install otb otbapp monteverdi*
> *
> *
> I'll send a script for orfeo based on the mapserver script soon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Manuel
> 
> 2011/1/12 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> 
>>  Thank you Manual for these clarifications.
>>
>> I'm heartened by all your answers, and I'm +1 for including OTB on
>> OSGeo-Live.
>> Assuming that there are no other questions or objections from our
>> community, I'd encourage you to start packaging OTB as per:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
>>
>> If you wish to make the next release, can you please aim to have install
>> script and Overview and Quickstart text complete by 31 January.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/01/2011 4:41 AM, Manuel Grizonnet wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I answer below to questions about OTB 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?
>>
>>  ->Yes the software Monteverdi based on OTB provide a user interface and
>> an architecture which allows building processing chains by selecting modules
>> from a set of menus. It supports raster and vector dataThe 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 application is called Monteverdi, since this is the
>> name of the Orfeo composer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi>
>> .  The application is also packaged on Ubuntu, you can find more
>> informations here : http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/monteverdi.html
>> Moreover the otb-app package provides OTB processing chain (command line
>> interface) which are also accessible through user interface (standalone qt
>> application or qgis plugins)
>>
>> 2. OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained.
>> Can ORFEO Toolbox run in 512 Meg or RAM?
>>
>>  ->Yes, we already provide in the past Live OTB which works on this type
>> of platforms. The application monteverdi was developped in the frame of
>> capacity building activities and it works on PC with memory and disk
>> constrained (512 Mo of RAM is enough to run the application and do basic
>> processing).
>>
>> How much disk space will be required to install ORFEO Toolbox and a
>> suitable example application.
>>
>>  -> otb package 10 Mo, monteverdi package 10 Mo, otb-app 15 Mo
>>
>> 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
>>
>>  -> I do not know this dataset, I think that we can use this dataset. We
>> provide also on our repository extract of remote sensing data which are used
>> as examples in the software guide and in the OTB tutorial.
>> http://hg.orfeo-toolbox.org/OTB-Data/
>> Our documentation (description of algorithms, input images, examples and
>> results) are automatically generated each time when we update the software
>> guide to ensure that results which appear in the documentation are results
>> provided by the library.
>> We can pointed out interesting "Toy example" if you want which will give an
>> overview of OTB functionnalities on the Live DVD?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  -> Sorry, I only open a ticket on the OSGeo website to start the
>> incubation process for now...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  -> The last OTB release 3.8.0 and monteverdi 1.6.0 are the latest stable
>> release. OTB validation is mainly driven by a platform of automatic tests
>> (based on cmake, ctest and cdash). The library is continuously and
>> intensively tests on numerous platforms. There are more than 1500 tests
>> currently in the library...
>> http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php?project=OTB
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  -> I am not aware of any discussions about the licence, Cecill is a free
>> software license (adapted to french legal matter) compatible with GPL :
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCILL
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  -> No problem for liaising between OSGeo and OTB. There is also an OTB
>> packages team on launchpad with contacts : https://launchpad.net/~otb<https://launchpad.net/%7Eotb>
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Manuel
>>
>> 2011/1/11 Manuel Grizonnet <manuel.grizonnet at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi Johan,
>>>
>>>  I think that's some words in your answers are missing... "it is already
>>> packaged and...???"
>>>
>>>  2011/1/11 Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Since
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Manuel Grizonnet <
>>>> manuel.grizonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  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 for Ubuntu platforms
>>>>> (9.10,10.4,10.10) and also for OpenSuse platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>  it is already packaged and
>>>>
>>>>>  OTB is under incubation for OSGeo Project.
>>>>>
>>>>  I think it would be a very good idea to include OTB on the live disk.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Manuel
>>>



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