Orfeo ToolBox

We are very happy (indeed) to announce that the OTB 3.14.0, codename “Happy” ! We would like to thanks all the users for their great feedback after the Release Candidate announcement : thanks to their work, 16 more bugs have been spotted and fixed between the Release Candidate announcement and today. Sources (OTB, Monteverdi, OTB-Wrapping) [...]

We are very happy (indeed) to announce that the OTB 3.14.0 Release Candidate, codename “Happy” is ready for testing ! Sources (OTB, Monteverdi, OTB-Wrapping) and binary packages (Monteverdi for Mac OS X and Windows) can be downloaded here. Some of ... [More] the major changes in this release are: Full support of Pléiades imagery: reading and uncompressing, [...] [Less]

We are soon entering the final stage of the release process, and it is about time to let you know about the new features you will find in OTB 3.14. This post is about one important tool we tried to improve in the last six months: segmentation. Of  course there has been a lot of [...]

If you are attending the Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium which will held in ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy from 23 to 27 April 2012, you will be able to meet members of the Orfeo ToolBox team there. We have several posters in the Tools and Methods poster session on Thursday the 26th (16:30-19:30), and we also have a demo session [...]

During the latest QGIS developer meeting (aka HackFest), I’ve had the pleasure to meet Victor Olaya, the developer of Sextante. He kindly presented Sextante to all participants, which you can see here : Since a few months, he is rewriting Sextante (initially in Java for gvSIG) as a new QGIS Python plugin. Sextante provides access [...]

The French Space Agency (CNES) in collaboration with the French Institute for Research and Development continue helping to the development of the use of remote sensing data by getting access to images but also by providing tools to manipulate these data. A previous article has already given some explanations about this program. In 2011, the [...]

In order to get a good picture of the OTB community, we proposed a survey to our user between the end of June and October 2011. This post is a (late) report of the results we had, thanks to your answers. General information about the survey We had a total of 62 answers to the [...]

Dear all, CNES is proud to announce the release of Orfeo ToolBox 3.12, codename Πλειάδες. After its sucessful launch on the 17th of December 2011, and while still in its comissing phase, Pleiades is already sending us beautiful images. This new ... [More] release, and especially the JPEG2000 support part, has been tested against real Pleiades images kindly provided by the comisioning team. There [...] [Less]

We are happy to announce that OTB and Monteverdi have entered the 3.12 release candidate stage! You can find the source (OTB and Monteverdi) and binary packages (Monteverdi form Mac OS X and Windows) here. Some of the notable changes in this release are: Large JPEG2000 file (Pleiades-like) support and Pleiades metadata handling in OTB [...]

First of all, we would like to share with all of you the pride and excitement following the success of Pleiades launch on Soyouz which took place on saturday the 17th at 03:03 AM CET. To best prepare OTB for these up-coming images, the next OTB release will happen in late january, allowing to test [...]