Opened 14 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#501 closed task (duplicate)
OSGeo incubation for Orfeo Toolbox (OTB)
| Reported by: | melaneum | Owned by: | jive |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Incubator | Keywords: | application |
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Description
After participating to Foss4g last week in Sydney and discussing with some OSGeo members, we realized that it would be good for our project to be associated with OSGeo. The project is the Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) available at http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org. This is a project started by CNES (the French Space Agency) in 2006 to provide open source tools to process satellite images and extract information. There are several links with other OSGeo project such as Gdal and ossim. The project is currently released under the CeCILL license (compatible with GPL).
From reading the OSGeo website, I understand that there is an incubation process. Here are the answers to the Incubator Application Questionnaire (http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html).
- Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.
Jordi Inglada (jordi.inglada@…)
- Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).
Emmanuel Christophe (emmanuel.christophe@…)
- Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers
cf http://www.ohloh.net/p/otb/contributors?page=1 from CNES, CS (mostly under a contract with CNES), Telecom Bretagne and National University of Singapore (CRISP)
- Please describe your Project
Provide open source tools to process satellite images and extract information
- Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
Hosting is not currently required, but it would be good for our project to be associated with OSGeo (public awareness and quality control)
- Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):
library with some applications
- Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.
Intensive use of Gdal and ossim. Planned support for PostGIS and plugins for Quantum GIS
- Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.
Possibility to access the library from IDL/Envi (ITT) by defining some wrapping (but no automatic way to provide this wrapping available so far). Idem for Matlab through Java bindings calls.
- Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
CeCILL (GPL compatible)
- Is there already a beta or official release?
Current release is 3.0, there have been 10 releases since 2006.
- What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?
government (CNES)
- Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?
Support of open data standard through gdal/ogr
- Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?
The copyright is controlled by CNES
- How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?
9 people currently contributing
- How many people have commit access to the source code respository?
Distributed source control is used (mercurial) so some people are participating through other members of the team. Currently 10 people have a push access to the main repository (including 6 from CS under contract with CNES).
- Approximately how many users are currently using this project?
very hard to evaluate now.
- What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?
government, academic research
- If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?
strong interaction with other projects of the foundation
- Does the project include an automated build and test?
cmake and ctest with a nightly submission of more that 1200 tests on more than 10 different platforms.
- What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)
C++ with availability of python binding, java binding under development
- Mostly French, but the code, comments and documentation are in English
What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?
- 40 MB for the source, 100 MB for the windows binary release. Around 1000 downloads for the latest release on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/orfeo-toolbox/files/), but the files are available from other sources as well.
What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?
We look forward to hearing from the Incubation Committee and moving our application forward!
Hi,
I want tu update the incubation ticket of the ORFEO ToolBox opened 3 years ago. Since 3 years, OTB has continued to maintain strong link with some OSGeo projects. OTB functionalities are now available as QGIS plugins (through Sextante) and is included in OSGeo Live since 2 years now.
We're still convinced that it would be good for our project to be associated with OSGeo to increase interactions with other projects and perhaps be able to access to OSGeo infrastructure.
I took the time to update all questions of the incubation application Please find below some updates in the ticket. We look forward to hearing from the Incubation Committe :
The project is the Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) available at http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org. This is a project started by CNES (the French Space Agency) in 2006 to provide open source tools to process satellite images and extract information. There are several links with other OSGeo project such as Gdal and ossim, QGIS. The project is currently released under the CeCILL license (compatible with GPL).
From reading the OSGeo website, I understand that there is an incubation process. Here are the answers to the Incubator Application Questionnaire (http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html).
1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner. Julien Michel (julien.michel@…)
The availability of binary packages (on Linux, Windows, Mac) helps a lot to increase the number of OTB users.
We look forward to hearing from the Incubation Committee and moving our application forward'''''