News

22/03/2010:

New utility for COSMO-SkyMed polarimetric data

A new utility for converting COSMO-SkyMed polarimetric products (PingPong mode) to RGB is currently under development. The new plug-in will be in GSDView Pro v 0.7.1.

15/03/2010:

GSDView 0.7.0 final released to ASI.

It is a new stable release that includes new features, bug fixes and many small improvements. New features include a plug-in for controlling SWB processing tools (based on the OTB library), and a plug-in for COSMO-SkyMed RAW data analysis. See the Change history for a more detailed description.

30/11/2009:

GSDView 0.6.0 final released for internal use.

Several bugs fixed with respect to the beta release.

17/11/2009:

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Basilicata Region signed an agreement on the 17th November 2009, for the creation of the CIDOT (Centre for the Interpretation of Earth Observation Data).

In occasion of the event INNOVA issued a demo version of its software GSDView v. 0.6.0 beta.

The complete News archive is also available.

Introduction

GSDView (Geo-Spatial Data Viewer) is a lightweight viewer for geo-spatial data and products. It is written in python and Qt4 and it is mainly intended to be a graphical front-end for the GDAL library and tools. GSDView is modular and has a simple plug-in architecture.

At the moment GSDView is at an early development stage.

Requirements

In order to run GSDView you should have the following software installed:

• Python 2.5 or higher
• PyQt 4.5.2 or higher
• numpy 1.2.1 or higher
• scipy 0.6.0 or higher
• gdal 1.5.4 or higher
• proj4 4.7 or higher
• Enthought Traits and TraitsBackendQt 3.3.0 ot higher
• Enthought TraitsGUI 3.3.0 ot higher
• Enthought Enable 3.3.0 ot higher (QA plug-in)
• Enthought Chaco 3.3.0 ot higher (QA plug-in)
• PyTables 2.1 or higher (qacskraw plug-in)

Hint

Ubuntu and Debian users can resolve almost all dependencies by running the following command as superuser:

$ apt-get install python-qt4 python-gdal gdal-bin python-numpy python-scipy python-tables

On Debian Sid Traits library is also packaged now:

$ apt-get install python-traitsbackendqt python-traitsgui python-traits python-chaco

Installation

Please refer to the Installation section of the GSDView Pro User Manual.

How to run GSDView

The command for starting GSDView is:

$ gsdviewer

If you have all dependencies installed you can also run GSDView without installation by simply running the following command in the package root:

$ python gsdviewer

Windows^TM users can run GSDView without installation by double-clicking on gsdviewer.pyw file. If it doesn’t exist you can get it by making a copy of the gsdviewer file and renaming it gsdviewer.pyw.

Supported Platforms

GSDView is programmed in Python and it should be cross-platform. The GSDView software has been successfully tested under MS Windows^TM XP as well as under GNU/Linux (32/64 bit) operating systems.

Documentation

• News archive
• GSDView Pro User Manual
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • The Graphical User Interface
  • Processing tools
  • Quality analysis plug-in
  • Tutorials
  • Supported formats
  • Features map
  • Change history
  • Glossary
• Release notes for GSDView 0.7.2
  • Release notes
  • Changes since last release
  • Known bugs
• Known Bugs
• TODO List

License

Copyright Notice and Statement for GSDView Pro Software:

Copyright (c) 2008-2010 by INNOVA Consorzio per l’Informatica e la Telematica s.r.l.

Copyright (c) 2008-2010 by Antonio Valentino <a_valentino@users.sf.net>

All rights reserved.

This is demonstration software and not meant for production usage. It is delivered only for internal use. Redistribution in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is forbidden.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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