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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 [...]

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 release, and especially the JPEG2000 support part, has been tested against real Pleiades images kindly provided by the comisioning team. There [...]

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 [...]

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 : OTB, OTB-Applications, Monteverdi, OTB-Documents, OTB-Qgis-plugins and OTB-Wrapping source code repositories.