[OSGeo-Announce] ORFEO Toolbox enters OSGeo Incubation

[Anne Ghisla]

The OSGeo Board is pleased to announce that it has approved the
application by the ORFEO Toolbox project [1] to enter the incubation
[2] process. Incubation is a stepping stone to becoming a full fledged
OSGeo project.

ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) is a project started by CNES (French Space Agency)
in 2006 to provide open source tools to process satellite images and
extract information.

OTB is distributed as an open source library of image processing
algorithms. As the motto of OTB goes, "Orfeo Toolbox is not a black
box", OTB encourages full access to the details of all the 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. Targeted
algorithms for high resolution optical images (Pleiades, SPOT,
QuickBird, WorldView, Landsat, Ikonos), hyperspectral sensors
(Hyperion) or SAR (TerraSarX, ERS, Palsar) are available.

OTB is distributed under a free software license CeCILL (similar to
GPL) to encourage contribution from users and to promote reproducible
research. The library is intensively tested on several platforms as
Linux, Unix and Windows. Most functionalities are also adapted to
process huge images without the need for a supercomputer using
streaming and multi-threading as often as possible.

[1] http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
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