Welcome To Opticks

Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source.

If you've used other commercial tools like: ERDAS IMAGINE, RemoteView, ENVI, or SOCET GXP, then you need to give Opticks a try. Unlike other competing tools, you can add capability to Opticks by creating an extension. Opticks provides the most advanced extension capability of any other remote sensing tool on the market.

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Imagery and Multispectral Data provided by Digital Globe. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data provided by Sandia National Labs.

Features
  • Free and open source
  • Supports the following file formats: NITF 2.0/2.1, GeoTIFF, ENVI, ASPAM/PAR, CGM, DTED, Generic RAW, ESRI Shapefile, HDF5, AVI, MPEG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
  • Zoom, pan, rotate spatially large datasets
  • Quickly layer GIS features, annotations, results, and other information over your data to provide context
  • Many image display controls such as colormap, histogram, transparency, etc.
  • Support for datasets larger than four gigabytes
  • Analysts can quickly combine steps using graphical wizards
  • Support for processing data in it's native interleave of BIP, BSQ or BIL
  • Get extensions to drop in new capability.
Adding Capability

Extensions can be built for Opticks to add:

  • New processing algorithms
  • New file formats
  • New visualizations of the data
  • New data types

You can browse and download existing extensions.

To learn how to create extensions, visit Opticks Extension Development
News


You can subscribe to Opticks news using any RSS or Feed Reader, here is our Feed. Or you can have posts e-mailed to you.

Community

The Opticks community is a collection of people and software interested in remote sensing. Connect with the community in the following ways:

Get Involved

The best part of any open source project is the community, so why not join in?

Opticks Spectrum: Collection of Blogs


You can subscribe to the collection of blogs using any RSS or Feed Reader, here is our Feed. Or you can have posts e-mailed to you.

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