[Portugal] QGIS & Orfeo toolbox, packages no OSGeo4w

[Giovanni Manghi]

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> From: Julien Malik <julien.malik at c-s.fr>
> Reply-to: julien.malik at c-s.fr
> To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>, qgis-user
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Announcing the OrfeoToolbox
> plugin
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:28:25 +0200
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Following on this recent annoucement, the necessary OrfeoToolbox 
> binaries to run the modules in Qgis are available in the OSGeo4W 
> distribution.
> 
> It is now straightforward to get the OrfeoToolbox up and running in Qgis 
> on Windows machines.
> Installation instructions [1] have been updated to reflect this.
> 
> Thanks to the OSGeo4W team to make this possible !
> 
> Best regards,
> Julien
> 
> [1] 
> http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Quantum_GIS_access_to_OTB_applications#Notes_for_Windows_users
> 
> 
> Le 18/10/2011 12:42, Julien Malik a écrit :
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of the OrfeoToolbox [1] 
> > Qgis plugin.
> >
> > This plugin is based on the already available "Processing Manager" 
> > plugin [2], which can also provide access to the SAGA modules.
> > It's a Python plugin which can be installed through the Python Plugin 
> > Installer (but need a required OTB Python package installed on your 
> > system).
> > The plugin is hosted in the Faunalia repository, next to the 
> > "Processing Manager" and the "SAGA Module interface" plugins.
> >
> > Installation instructions for the backend Python package are given in 
> > [3].
> > In particular, an OSGeo4W-compatible binary is provided on a nightly 
> > basis at [4], so Windows users can install and test it in a few minutes.
> > Testing it on Linux involves more work (see [3]), but we are working 
> > on providing Ubuntu binary packages to ease the installation process 
> > on this platform.
> >
> > The plugin provides access to a set of modules wrapping different kind 
> > of functionnalities of the Orfeo Toolbox.
> >
> > As of now, modules are available to perform the following tasks :
> > - P+XS Pan Sharpening
> > - Orthorectification
> > - Optical Calibration
> > - KMeans clustering
> > - SVM Supervised Classification
> > - Mean Shift segmentation
> > - Change Detection (Multivariate Alteration Detector algorithm)
> > - Hyperspectral data unmixing
> > - Filtering (mean, gaussian, anisotropic diffusion)
> > - Raster conversion and scaling
> >
> > This is only the beginning and new modules will be added regularly to 
> > expose most of the OTB functionnalities in easy to use application 
> > modules.
> >
> > Many thanks to Camilo for providing the Processing Manager Framework, 
> > and to Paolo and Giuseppe for helping on the plugin packaging.
> >
> > We will be glad to hear your feedback !
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Julien
> >
> > [1] http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/
> > [2] https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki
> > [3] 
> > http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Quantum_GIS_access_to_OTB_applications
> > [4] http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/packages/nightly/latest/