Remote Sensing Software
Remote Sensing data is processed and analyzed with computer software, known as a remote sensing application. A large number of proprietary and open source applications exist to process remote sensing data. Remote Sensing Software packages include:
- TNTmips from MicroImages,
- PCI Geomatica made by PCI Geomatics, the leading remote sensing software package in Canada,
- IDRISI from Clark Labs,
- Image Analyst from Intergraph,
- and RemoteView made by Overwatch Textron Systems.
- Dragon/ips is one of the oldest remote sensing packages still available, and is in some cases free.
Open source remote sensing software includes:
- OSSIM,
- Opticks (software),
- Orfeo toolbox
- Others mixing remote sensing and GIS capabilities are: GRASS GIS, ILWIS, QGIS, and TerraLook.
According to an NOAA Sponsored Research by Global Marketing Insights, Inc. the most used applications among Asian academic groups involved in remote sensing are as follows: ERDAS 36% (ERDAS IMAGINE 25% & ERMapper 11%); ESRI 30%; ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI 17%; MapInfo 17%.
Among Western Academic respondents as follows: ESRI 39%, ERDAS IMAGINE 27%, MapInfo 9%, AutoDesk 7%, ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI 17%.
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