Orfeo ToolBox

As you may know, the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) will take place in Cape Town this year, starting on July 13th. We are very proud to have a special session about OTB. You can find the detailed program here:  (first part, second part). If you attend IGARSS, don’t forget to come and see some [...]

CNES is proud to announce the availability of the new major stable version of ORFEO Toolbox. These are the applications shipped with OTB 3.0 Urban area extraction (Pléiades, QB, Ikonos, SPOT5) Image to Data Base registration (Pléiades/QB) The ... [More] library includes these additions Radiometric indices (vegetation, water, soil) Optimized texture computations including Haralick, SFS, Pantex, Edge [...] [Less]

The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society of IEEE, publishes a quarterly Newsletter about “the science and engineering of remote sensing of the Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere”. The last edition (March 2009) features a 7-page article about ... [More] OTB which is entitled: “Open Source Remote Sensing: Increasing the Usability of Cutting-Edge Algorithms”. The article [...] [Less]

At first, the visualization module of the Orfeo ToolBox was designed as a lightweight tool to view results at the end of a pipeline and to be integrated into graphical OTB applications. But as the number of these applications increases, we started adding more and more features to this tool: polygonal ROI selection, link betweeen [...]

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If you’re following our OTB adventures, you know that OTB is a complex (yet wonderful) project. As a complex project, it is hard to evaluate if the right choices were made in term of development methodology, if the team organization is working well and to see if you’re not spending more time fixing stuff that [...]

We are happy to announce the release of OTB 2.8, code name “恭喜发财” (Gong Xi Fa Cai). The main additions to this version are both on the library and the applications. End users will be happy to find 3 very useful new applications: 1. Object Counting 2. Fine Registration 3. Road Extraction A very user-friendly installer for the whole set of [...]

The road extraction application was one of the first applications distributed with OTB. Originally, it was intended for demonstration purposes only for the IEEE ICIP 2007 conference. It was suffering from serious shortcomings in terms of size of the ... [More] image to process, export of the results, access to the parameters, etc. The application has been redesigned [...] [Less]

OTB 2.8 (to be relased next week) will ship an object counting application. Object counting is one of the main features needed by the future Pléiades imagery end users. Therefore, we decided to implement object counting as a standalone application. ... [More] Object counting includes a very broad field of problems. For this first version of the application, [...] [Less]

OTB can help you to do a lot of stuff: segment, classify, register your satellite images for example. But in this time where Christmas is coming fast (less than 10 days now), you probably have something else on your mind. But here too, OTB can help you: for those of you who dread the prospect of [...]