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With the Pleiades launch a few weeks ahead, there has been a lot of ongoing work from the OTB team to prepare for these new data. Since a lot of discussions happened off the list, either with phone meetings, or on other mailing lists (we will see later on why), and since we now have [...]

Watch the organic organization of an open source project  like OTB and how contributors modify and expand the source code! This video was generated with the open source software version control visualization tool Gource. It shows modifications  in : ... [More] OTB, OTB-Applications, Monteverdi, OTB-Documents, OTB-Qgis-plugins and OTB-Wrapping source code repositories. [Less]

Some people can be talented in several domains. In addition to his good work with Orfeo ToolBox on a supervised method to enhance segmentation results for categories of objects of interest, our intern, Olivier Canévet, has proven many times to be a very good baker. When he started planning to bake an OTB cake, at [...]

Processing stereo pairs to derive an elevation map is a very frequent feature request from our users. The otb::FineRegistrationImageFilter has been a first step toward it but it and allows to estimates disparities in a precise way (see for instance ... [More] this previous post). Yet, there are several steps missing to achieve an elevation (not disparity) map [...] [Less]

The Orfeo ToolBox celebrates its 5th birthday at the end of June 2011 and it seems to be the right time to learn more about our users and contributors. It will help us to find the best road-map for the future, to try to improve the weaker aspects of the software and to set priorities [...]

Inspired by the Google initiative and their GSoC, ESA has launched their Summer of Code in Space. The idea is more or less the same as for the GSoC : ESA selects open source projects as mentoring organizations, and propose to pay students a very decent amount of money to work on those open source [...]

Dear all, CNES is proud to announce the release of Orfeo ToolBox 3.10, codename Feliç aniversari. It coincides with the fifth anniversary of the Orfeo ToolBox library (release 1.0 was done the 06/30 2006!). Release Candidate: thank you ! We would like to thanks all the users for their great feedback after the Release Candidate [...]

Dear all, CNES is  happy to announce that the Orfeo ToolBox has entered the release candidate stage. The packages for the stable 3.10 release will be available at the end of June. It will coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Orfeo ToolBox library (the release 1.0 was done the 06/30 2006!). The packages for [...]

Hi all, the OSGeo Live project has just released the version 4.5 of the OSGeo Live GIS software collection, along with a 25 minute video describing the 42 contributing GeoSpatial Open Source applications. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD ... [More] , USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide [...] [Less]

We are happy to announce the new 3.8.0 OTB release, codename “Pack Ice”. Simultaneously, we are releasing Monteverdi 1.6, the all-in one user-friendly graphical tool for remote sensing image processing and also a new release of OTB-Applications ... [More] and OTB-Wrapping projects. We are also happy to announce that starting 3.8.0, packages are available through online repositories [...] [Less]