<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ORFEO Toolbox library is develop by the <a href="http://www.cnes.fr" title="CNES" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">French Space Agency (CNES)</a> in the frame of the Methodological Part of the <a href="http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/A_prog_accomp.htm" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">ORFEO Accompaniment Program</a> to prepare, accompany and promote the use and the exploitation of the images derived from <a href="http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">Pleiades (PHR)</a> and Cosmo-Skymed (CSK) systems. </font></div>
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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 <a href="http://www.itk.org/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">ITK</a> 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 license<a href="http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">CeCILL</a> (similar to GPL). The library is intensively tested on several platforms as Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. (<a href="http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/" target="_blank">http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/</a>)</p>
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The library use also other OSGeo Open Source softwares : GDAL, Mapnik, PostGIS... </p>
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Most functionalities are also adapted to process huge images using streaming and multi-threading as often as possible.</p>
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<li>image access: optimized read/write access for most of remote sensing image formats, meta-data access, visualization;</li><li>filtering: blurring, denoising, enhancement;</li><li>feature extraction: interest points, alignments, lines, radiometric indices...;</li>
<li>image segmentation: region growing, watershed, level sets;</li><li>classification: K-means, SVM, Markov random fields;</li><li>change detection.</li></ul><p></p></font><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
There are also related project based on the ORFEO Toolbox:</font></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">-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.</span></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Monteverdi : <span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; ">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 </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; ">processing on demand and automagic file format I/O.The modular architecture provide acces to lot's of OTB functionnalities : Image Geometry, i</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">mage filetring and feature extraction, learning methods, SAR algorithms...</span></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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 <a href="http://launchpad.net">launchpad.net</a> for Ubuntu platforms (9.10,10.4,10.10) and also for OpenSuse platforms. </font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here you can ind detailed informations about access to the source code or to binary packages : <a href="http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/download.html</a></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A<span style="line-height: 17px; "> live DVD is available for OTB (very handy for demonstration or education purposes). It's available at: <a href="http://otb/../otblive/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" target="_blank">http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otblive/</a> It was not updated since the last release 3.8.</span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OTB is under incubation for OSGeo Project. </font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do not hesitate if you need further informations about the project.</font></p>
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Best regards, </font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-- <br>Manuel</font><br>
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