ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) on YouTube

Emmanuel Christophe has produced a very interesting video about ORFEO Toolbox.

The animation has been generated using an open source tool called Code Swarm http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/. You can watch it here:


This video shows OTB's history in terms of change in source code. Each dot represents a file gravitating around the developer who edited it.

It is interesting to note the increase of activity during the weeks before a release and the decrease during summer holidays (the development team lives in France ...).

Anybody wants to join the adventure?

Summer School in Very High Resolution Remote Sensing

You may be interested in the upcoming 2008 Summer School on Very High
Resolution Remote Sensing which will be held in Grenoble, France, over a
week (September 8-12).

I will be giving a talk about "New sensors, new missions and new challenges on very high resolution remote sensing imagery".

It is a pleasure for me having been invited by the organizing committee led by Jocelyn Chanussot to participate with international experts as:

• Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
• Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy
• Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain
• Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR, Germany
• Irena Hajnsek, DLR, Germany

CNES will take care of organizing lab sessions using the ORFEO Toolbox
(an open source library for remote sensing image processing algorithms developed by CNES).

You can find more information about the program and the registration procedure here.

OTB Live CD World Release

Last week took place 2 of the main remote sensing symposiums at the international level: IGARSS (in Boston) and ISPRS (in Beijing).

The OTB Team took the chance and 100 live CDs with the last version of OTB where distributed in Boston and Beijing. At the end of the week we still had some unhappy people asking for their sample when there where no CDs left!

We hope that the Live CD will allow people to test OTB easily and that they will find it useful for remote sensing image processing.