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ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the other-applications dept.

phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow the remote sensing community to easily develop new readers/writers and post-processors for SAR data with their NEST Java API. The software provides both a command line interface and GUI for all features including data conversion, graph processing, coregistration, multilooking, filtering, and band arithmetic."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. SAR by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Synthetic Aperture Radar

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  3. Visualization by johnny+maxwell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A not totally off-topic question: Can anyone recommend a free data visualization and analysis/plotting package? Something a bit more powerful than gnuplot :)

  4. ESA has been doing this for years by reddish · · Score: 4, Informative

    ESA has been sponsoring FOSS projects for years; I worked on the GPL'ed BEAT software no less than seven years ago that was commissioned by ESA (disclosure: I am no longer with the company that develops it).

    See here for more examples of open source software funded by ESA. They are really ahead of the pack in this respect.

    1. Re:ESA has been doing this for years by jlar · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Unfortunately ESA has a data policy which is lightyears behind that of NASA. While NASA data are just a click away, ESA data are tied up in red tape.

      At least that was my experience some years ago.

  5. Re:FINALLY !!! by pembo13 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know about Vista, but installing XP on new hardware can be a painful experience.

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