Remote Sensing Code Library [Software and Data Sets

Abstract

Forward progress in remote sensing science and technology relies on the free exchange of results and ideas as well as the dissemination of remotely sensed data acquired by ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne sensors. An important ingredient is the family of computer codes and algorithms used by scientists and engineers to analyze data, model and calibrate sensors, and associate sensor output with the physical parameters of the observed scenes. Scientific journals and meetings—such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing symposia—play an important role in facilitating the exchange of scientific information, but their domains do not encompass computer codes. For the most part, remote sensing computer codes remain hidden from public view. The Remote Sensing Code Library (RSCL) is an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society initiative to establish a large family of remote sensing computer codes—contributed by members of the remote sensing community and their host institutions—for use by other members of the community not only to verify and extend published results but to also reduce the duplication of time and effort invested in the development of these codes.