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Optiks: New Open Source Satellite Imagery Processing Software
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The OSGeo-Discuss mailing list informs us of a new open source satellite imagery processing software named Optiks. The official website. From the article: "Opticks is used by scientists and analysts within the Department of Defense Intelligence Community to analyze remote sensing data and produce actionable intelligence. Opticks supports Imagery, Motion Imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing data." From the OSGeo post: "A couple of observations:
1. The Contributors Agreement (click on the Contributors
Agreement link on the left side of the page) is likely
rather intimidating for the average open source contributor.
2. It doesn't use GDAL (although it does have OSSIM as a
dependency)." This reminds me of the RATS software, recently discussed, and GRASS GIS comes to mind (though GRASS doesn't do hyperspectral?).
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