Comment Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux (Score 1) 310
Definitely not the best there is.
Try the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA and you'll see what really helpful tools can do for you.
Code with pleasure.
Comment Re:Best GIS software ? (Score 1) 124
For visualizing terrain data the open source NEST ESA SAR Toolbox is great.
It automatically downloads SRTM tiles as needed to orthorectify SAR images.
When the interferometry modules are ready it will also be able to generate new DEMs from SAR images
Comment Available in GeoTIFF via FTP (Score 1) 124
SRTM 3sec DEM is also available via anon FTP in GeoTIFF format from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
Comment Too simple to be able to do much (Score 0) 119
Wake me up when I'm able to program these in a high level language with a decent amount of memory onboard.
Comment Digital Elevation Map (DEM) (Score 1) 207
This is a digital elevation map at 30m resolution. The only other global DEM freely available is SRTM from a shuttle mission a while ago. It's only available at 90m globally and 30m for the US.
This will be used for orthorectifying images and interferometry of satellite data among other things.
Bookmark ESA's NEST 2C Available (slashgeo.org)
Comment SAR (Score 4, Interesting) 97
All-weather in this case means Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and I don't believe this is anymore a spy satellite than Radarsat2.
ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox 62
phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow the remote sensing community to easily develop new readers/writers and post-processors for SAR data with their NEST Java API. The software provides both a command line interface and GUI for all features including data conversion, graph processing, coregistration, multilooking, filtering, and band arithmetic."
Submission + - ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox (array.ca)
phyr writes: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow the remote sensing community to easily develop new readers/writers and post-processors for SAR data with their NEST Java API. The software provides both a command line interface and GUI for all features including data conversion, graph processing, coregistration, multilooking, filtering, and band arithmetic.
Software Development Predictions For 2009 134
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister lays out his development predictions for 2009. These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, and a dearth of innovation due to dwindling economic prospects. 'When customers aren't buying, tool vendors don't innovate — so don't expect many groundbreaking new technologies to debut this year,' McAllister writes, adding that smart companies will realize that 'process automation is one of the best ways to reduce costs in any business,' making 2009 the ideal time to 'revisit old software schemes that got shelved back when staffing budgets were flush.'"
