European Facility For Airborne Research

BEAM

Publisher: ESA (developer: Brockmann Consult)

Platform: Windows, Macintosh, Linux

Software / Code: Java

Requirements: Any platform

Features: BEAM is an open-source toolbox and development platform for viewing, analyzing and processing of remote sensing raster data. Originally developed to facilitate the utilization of image data from Envisat's optical instruments, BEAM now supports a growing number of other raster data formats such as GeoTIFF and NetCDF as well as data formats of other EO sensors such as MODIS, AVHRR, AVNIR, PRISM and CHRIS/Proba. Various data and algorithms are supported by dedicated extension plug-ins (e.g. toolbox for hyperspectral CHRIS sensor). Feature Highlights

• Very fast image display and navigation even of giga-pixel images
• Advanced layer management allows adding and manipulation of new overlays such as images of other bands, images from WMS servers or ESRI shapefiles
• Rich region-of-interest definitions for statistics and various plots
• Easy bitmask definition and overlay
• Flexible band arithmetic using arbitrary mathematical expressions
• Accurate reprojection and ortho-rectification to common map projections,
• Geo-coding and rectification using ground control points
• Store and restore the current session including all opened files, views and layers
• A standard set of scientific data processors which includes
  • Level 3 Binning and Mosaicing (all sensors)
  • Collocation (all sensors)
  • EM and K-Means Clustering, Linear Spectral Unmixing (all sensors)
  • Radiance-to-Reflectance, Smile Effect Correction, Cloud Probability, SMAC Atmospheric Correction, Case 2 Water Constituents (MERIS)
  • Sea Surface Temperature (AATSR)
  • FLH/MCI, NDVI (all sensors)

Webpage: http://www.brockmann-consult.de/cms/web/beam

Reference: BEAM Online help

Last modified: 2013

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Publisher: Ball Aerospace and US Air Force

Platform: Windows, Linux

Software / Code: IDL/Python

Requirements:

Features: Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source. Unlike other competing tools, you can add capability to Opticks by creating an extension.

Webpage: http://opticks.org/confluence/display/opticks/Welcome+To+Opticks

Reference: Application help comes with the software

Last modified: 2014.

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Publisher: French Space Agency (CNES)

Platform: Windows, MacOS X, Linux

Software / Code: C++ library (binary packages)

Requirements: OSGeo4W packages for Windows

Features: Orfeo ToolBox aims at enabling large images state-of-the-art processing even on limited resources laptops, and is shipped with a set of extensible ready-to-use tools for classical remote sensing tasks, as well as a fully integrated, end-users oriented software called Monteverdi.

Webpage: http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/

Reference: https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/documentation/

Last modified: 2015

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Publisher: University of Wuerzburg

Platform: Platform independent

Software / Code: R

Requirements:

Features: The RStoolbox package provides a set of functions which simplify performing standard remote sensing tasks in R. Most functions have built-in parallel support.

Webpage: http://bleutner.github.io/RStoolbox/

Reference: Wegmann, M., Leutner, B., and Dech, S. (Eds.). (2016) Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists: Using Open Source Software, Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK

Last modified: 2015

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SNAP

Publisher: ESA

Platform: Windows, Mac OS X, Unix

Software / Code:

Requirements:

Features: Sentinel Toolboxes. ESA is developing free open source toolboxes for the scientific exploitation of the Sentinel missions.

Webpage: http://step.esa.int/main/toolboxes/snap/

Reference: http://step.esa.int/main/doc/

Last modified: 2015

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