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Manuel,<br>
Thank you for your OTB docs.<br>
Here is a review of the Overview docs. Can you please see if my
comments make sense, and update text if appropriate.<br>
<br>
There are a couple of minor grammar comments I'll address again
after you have a look at this first round of comments.<br>
<br>
<br>
<h2>Image Processing<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this
headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>ORFEO Toolbox library (OTB) is a high performance library for
image processing targeted on remote sensing.<br>
<i>Cameron: I suggest a minor rewording:<br>
ORFEO Toolbox library (OTB) is a high performance [geographic
image processing] library <strike>targeted on</strike> <b>targeting</b>
remote sensing.</i><br>
</p>
<p><i>Cameron: Could you please include 1 to 3 sentences describing
what Image Processing is and maybe a sentence describing what
remote sensing is. What are the sort of things that Image
Processing is all about? The reader is likely to know very
little about geospatial, and won't know what the unique issues
are regargd They may be a manager, they may be a general
programmer without a geospatial background. "Geospatial Image
Processing is the act of ... It is typically used to ... "</i><br>
</p>
<p>OTB has been funded the French Space Agency (CNES) in the frame
of the Methodological Part of the ORFEO Accompaniement Program</p>
<p><i>Cameron: Again, I suggest generalising the description above.
It is good to mention the French Space Agency, but is probably
too detailed to mention specific programs as 98% of new users
won't be interested in it. <br>
</i></p>
<p>to prepare, accompany and promote the use and the exploitation of
the images derived from Pleiades (PHR) and Cosmo-Skymed (CSK)
systems.<br>
</p>
<p><i>Cameron: You might want to describe the types of images
collected, and use as an example to illustrate your description
above.<br>
<br>
</i>It has been actively developed since 2006.<br>
<i><br>
Cameron: Can add more words about the stability of OTB. Maybe
say that it has been "deployed in production since ...". Maybe
mention the breath of high profile users of OTB?<br>
</i></p>
<p>OTB is distributed as an open source library of image processing
algorithms. OTB is based on the medical image processing library
ITK and offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image
processing in general and for high spatial resolution images in
particular.</p>
<h3>Core Features</h3>
<br>
<ul class="simple">
<li>image access: optimized read/write access for most of remote
sensing image formats, meta-data access, visualization;</li>
<li>orthorectification and Map Projection</li>
<li>calibration functionnalities</li>
<li><i>Cameron: Say either "calibration" or "calibration
functions"</i><br>
</li>
<li>image fusion</li>
<li>filtering: blurring, denoising, enhancement;</li>
<li>feature extraction: interest points, alignments, lines;</li>
<li>object detection</li>
<li>image segmentation: region growing, watershed, level sets;</li>
<li>classification: K-means, SVM, Markov random fields;</li>
<li>object-based image analysis</li>
<li>geospatial analysis</li>
<li>SAR data analysis</li>
<li>change detection.</li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="details">
<h3>Details<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this
headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><strong>Website:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/">http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Licence:</strong> CeCILL<br>
</p>
<p><i>Cameron: As CeCILL is not directly OSI approved, I suggested
adding "(CeCILL is compatible with GPL and enhanced to address
French law)"</i><br>
</p>
<p><strong>Software Version:</strong> 3.8.0</p>
<p><strong>Supported Platforms:</strong> Linux, Mac, Windows</p>
<p><strong>API Interfaces:</strong> C++</p>
<p><strong>Commercial Support:</strong> <a class="reference
external" href="http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile">http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile</a></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="quickstart">
<h3>Quickstart<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this
headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external">Quickstart documentation</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<i>Cameron: I've only quickly skimmed the Quickstart and haven't had
time to do a proper review. However my first stand-out comment is
that the Quickstart should not be describing the C++ interface as
part of the OTB library. (In general, our users will not be
programmers.) Instead just include the Monteverdi description
(probably expanded) </i><br>
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