News

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.

13/11/2009:

GSDView 0.6.0 beta released for internal use.

Almost complete application re-write: new architecture that allows multiple data access backends (currently only GDAL backend is provided), updated dataset browser with new contextual actions, Multiple Document Interface (MDI), new preference dialog, improved GDAL configuration handling.

New processing tools are now available and initial support for OTB (Orfeo ToolBox) based tools has been introduced.

10/05/2009:

Double licensing.

Now GSDView is provided with a double license scheme: the open source edition hosted on SourceForge and GSDView Pro edition (closed source).

More details on licenses and a features map will be available soon in the project Home Page.

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 a very 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
• gdal 1.5.4 or higher
• scipy 0.6.0 or higher
• Enthought Traits and TraitsBackendQt 3.1.0 ot higher
• Enthought Enable 3.1.0 ot higher (QA plugin)
• Enthought Chaco 3.1.0 ot higher (QA plugin)
• PyQwt 5.1.0 or higher (recommended)

Hint

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

#
# apt-get python-qt4 python-qwt5-qt4 python-gdal gdal-bin python-numpy python-scipy
#

On Debian Sid Traits library is also packaged now:

#
# apt-get python-traitsbackendqt python-traitsgui python-traits python-chaco
#

Installation

Decompress the distribution package:

$ tar xvfz gsdview-X.YY.tar.gz

From the package directory run the following command as superuser:

# python setup.py install

You can also install GSDView in a custom location:

# python setup.py install --prefix=<PATH_TO_INSTALL_DIR>

Of course in this case you have to update the the PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables in order to include the install locations.

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 operating systems.

Documentation

• News archive
• GSDView Pro User Manual
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • The Graphical User Interface
  • Processing tools
  • Quality analysis plugin
  • Tutorials
  • Programmers reference
  • Supported formats
  • Features map
  • Changes history
  • Glossary
• Release notes for GSDView 0.6.0
  • Release notes
  • Changes since last release
  • Known bugs
• Known Bugs
• TODO List

License

Copyright Notice and Statement for GSDView Pro Software:

Copyright (c) 2008-2009 by Antonio Valentino <a_valentino@users.sf.net> Copyright (c) 2008-2009 by INNOVA Consorzio per l’Informatica e la Telematica s.r.l.

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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