Orfeo ToolBox: open source processing of remote sensing images

Manuel Grizonnet,Victor Poughon,Rémi Cresson,Julien Michel,Mickaël Savinaud,Jordi Inglada

doi:10.1186/s40965-017-0031-6

Abstract

Orfeo ToolBox is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing, including a fast image viewer, applications callable from command-line, Python or QGIS, and a powerful C++ API. This article is an introduction to the Orfeo ToolBox’s flagship features from the point of view of the two communities it brings together: remote sensing and software engineering.

Highlights

Orfeo ToolBox is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing, including a fast image viewer, applications callable from command-line, Python or QGIS, and a powerful C++ API
OTB in a nutshell With more than 10 years of development and 28 major releases, Orfeo ToolBox has evolved from a very-highresolution specific toolbox driven by the CNES Pleiades mission to a multi-sensor, multi-purpose remote sensing toolbox
Is one example of how to use Python to run the Smoothing application, changing the algorithm at each iteration: the OTB applications are available in QGIS via a Python plugin which is built on top of the QGIS processing framework [21] making spatial analysis tasks more productive and easy to accomplish

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Introduction

Orfeo ToolBox is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing, including a fast image viewer, applications callable from command-line, Python or QGIS, and a powerful C++ API. Orfeo ToolBox (OTB) [1] is an open-source project for processing satellite imagery. Thanks to its modular architecture, OTB allows fast prototyping and covers the full spectrum of algorithms for remote sensing image processing from pre-processing to advanced feature extractions methods allowing one to go from raw data to value added products.

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