Orfeo ToolBox

The OTB library and the interactive software Monteverdi were at the center of a workshop organized by the National Committee of Remote Sensing of Madagascar from November 17th to 20th, 2010. The French Space Agency (CNES) in collaboration with the French Institute for Research and Development are helping to the development of the use of [...]

When processing your images and building up your cutting-edge processing chain with OTB, the need arises to do simple arithmetic operations between the different bands of your images : substracting two bands to study the image differences, threshold ... [More] the image, apply conditional filtering rule or perform a logarithmic rescaling for example. It requires the use [...] [Less]

We are happy to announce a new OTB release. This is version 3.6, code name ” California Dreamin’ “. Simultaneously, we are releasing the new stable version of Monteverdi, the all-in one user-friendly graphical tool for remote sensing image processing ... [More] and also a new release of OTB-Applications and OTB-Wrapping projects. There are lots of exciting new features [...] [Less]

Local displacements estimation between two images is a common task in many remote sensing applications : DEM extraction, clouds detection … In Orfeo ToolBox, some filters are already available to perform this kind of task, like the ... [More] otb::NCCRegistrationFilter based on a finite differences method or the otb::DisparityMapEstimationMethod which allows to apply ITK registration framework locally [...] [Less]

The new OTB live DVD is out! On the program is the brand new OTB 3.4 (which came out 2 weeks ago) with the last Xubuntu 10.4. It’s just as usual: download it from http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otblive/, burn it on a DVD, put it on a computer and restart (or launch directly  the iso file in a virtual host [...]

We are happy to announce a new OTB release. This is version 3.4, code name Perl A Rebours. Simultaneously, we are releasing a new release of Monteverdi and the first stable version of the OTB-Wrapping project wich allows to use OTB classes with other languages (Java and Python for now). These are the new main add-ons [...]

It seems that C++ programming can be cumbersome for some users. Well, OTB allows you to work also in other programming languages as for instance Python. The Pylab Project which gathers numeric and scientific Python packages such as NumPy, SciPy and ... [More] Matplotlib is considered as having the same features as some commercial scientific environments. [...] [Less]

Since the release of Monteverdi (front end application which provides interactive access to OTB functions), there are lots of requests for documentation or tutorials on modules available, how the application can respond to specific problems, etc. ... [More] Concerning the OTB library, there is a comprehensive guide which comprises about 700 pages (html and pdf), detailing the [...] [Less]

Now that computer are connected to the internet and that tons petabytes of data are available, that would be a shame not to use all this for some processing. The development version of Monteverdi has just added the capability to get images from out of your box: tile map access. Basically, it gets data which are [...]

Here is a graph that shows the activity on the OTB users mailing list in the last 4 years. In blue, the number of registered users and in red, the number of mails per month. The number of users is growing very regularly (and that’s good!), the activity is not so regular (the drop for [...]