Change history

Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2 (in development)

• documentation improved (quality analysis chapter)
• fixed compatibility with Qt >= 4.6 (#452 and #453)
• fix precision loss in HDF5 metadata
• use height for localization error measurement (#458)
• compute absolute localization error, not only components (#459)
• fixed cache cleanup (#327)

Changes from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1 (29/03/2010)

• documentation improved
• tool for conversion of COSMO-SkyMed polarimetric products (PingPong mode) to RGB (#411, #412)
• fixed a bug in complex data interpolation for point target analysis (#413)
• fixed a serious bug in band arithmetic and kernel filtering tools. The bug caused wrong results when operating on COSMO-SkyMed data (#419, #423 and #443)
• enable the Open View context menu entry for complex raster bands (close #417)
• fix the data export tool UI for setting the right re-sampling factor (#420)
• disable the zoom option in gdal2tiles (#410)
• allow floating point parameters for image scaling in data type conversion tool (#415)
• fixed row/col inversion bug in code for coordinate displaying (#371) and geo-location error measurement (#421)
• fix displaying of data with very wide dynamics (#430)
• minor fix in area selection of the “Very Coarse Map Projection” tool UI (#431)
• fix ground range geometric resolution computation (#434)
• fixed a minor bug that caused the overview not to me displayed for very large iamges (#441)
• normalize selection rect so to prevent bug #448: area not always correctly set in processing tools GUI

Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0 (05/03/2010)

• new plug-in for CSK RAW data analysis (#219, #235)
• implemented a workaround for loading of the qacskraw plug-in that depends on the qa one (#308)
• new processing tools based on OTB lib (#66, #148, #212, #215, #216, #223, #225, #255, #301)
• new plug-in for OTB based processing tools (#364)
• fixed block size determination on non chunked HDF5 datasets (#284). This bug caused unacceptable slow downs and crashes on win32 platform.
• now it is possible to deselect an analysis tool (#313)
• improved visual feedback (mouse cursor changes) when GSDView performs an analysis (#303)
• improved inputs checking in gxfir tool (#278)
• all source files now always use absolute imports (#324)
• general code cleanup
• switch to enthought components from ETS 3.4.0 series
• overviews items are no more showed in the navigation panel tree view (#316)

Changes from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0 (30/11/2009)

• license changed for GSDView Pro: all rights reserved
• updated copyright notes and license statement
• the about dialog now loads the license text from file
• documentation improved and API reference added
• merge with GSDView Open Source Edition (#76, #126, #127, #130, #131)
  • support for Python 2.6, PyQt 4.5 and GDAL 1.6 (#80)
  • new architecture that allows multiple backends for actual data access (currently only GDAL backend is provided) (#125, #132)
  • updated dataset browser with new contextual actions
  • now the application uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) (#1)
  • pluggable about dialog (plug-ins can add their own tab) (#128)
  • preference dialog (#18)
  • splash screen (#124)
  • mouse cursor changes during processing (#295)
  • improved GDAL configuration handling (without application re-spawning)
  • new function for converting a numpy array into a QImage: now PyQwt is an optional dependency (close #113)
  • full sub-datasets support (#25)
• improved HDF5 COSMO-SkyMed support:
  • invalid values (#104)
  • data statistics (#103)
  • geographic meta data and compatibility with commercial COTS (Autocad 3D, ArcMap)
  • now the driver extracts the entire set of metadata (#258)
• fixed LUT evaluation in case of simulated data (close #120)
• mouse modes (#2)
• stretching tool moved from the mai application to a plug-in (#129)
• quality analysis tool (#143) (INCOMPLETE)
• statistics tool (#142. #163)
• tools for band arithmetic (sum, product, real/imag extraction from complex, lin <–> log conversion) (#105)
• kernel filtering (boxcar, hamming, hanning, gauss, etc)
• non-linear (de-speckle) filters: Lee, Frost, median (#146) (NOTE: currently this feature is not provided in the win32 version)
• fully re-organized menu bar and tools menu (#196)
• new plug-in for displaying logos
• now it is possible to clean the data cache using a button in the preferences dialog (#173)
• move to py2exe tool for packaging
• several bug fixed

Changes from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2 (13/02/2009)

• added links to documentation in the help menu (close #87)
• temporarily disabled some diver (close #86)
• documentation updated (also close #93)
• new tutorial (Italian only)

Changes from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 (30/01/2009)

• co-registered CSK products (CRG) are now suported
• minor improvement in tool for scaling pixel values (close #48)
• implemented a workaround for metadata loss in products with sub-datasets (e.g. CSK products) (close #38)
• now the installer for win32 platforms generates links to documentation in the Start –> Programs menu (close #58)
• improved directory chooser for external tools dialogs (close #54)
• now the zoom factor is displayed on the toolbar (close #43)
• the output log plane is no more writable (close #55)
• added missing options to the configuration dialog for quicklook tool (close #50)
• now GSDView prompts for cache cleanup when cache size exceeds the threshold set in preferences (close #61)
• fixed annoying issue that prevent opening CSK ScanSAR images (/MBI datasets) (close #46)
• fixed data corruption at image borders for HDF5 driver (close #95)

Changes from 0.4 to 0.5.0 (17/12/2008)

• new plug-in for running GDAL tool from within the GUI
• new tool for (real and complex) data extraction and quick-look images generation
• image view and operations like zoom, scroll and pan are more efficient
• new tool for image stretch regulation (scaling of pixel values)
• an external tool called by GSDView can now be stopped by the user
• several bug fixes