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Comment Re:One way to drum up business... (Score 1) 56

by PFMABE on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:06PM (#49425143) Attached to: US NAVY Sonar/Lidar Editing Software Released To the World

The USACE version was last updated in Nov 2011. (v6.3.1.41) A little dated. The latest version 6.4.0.15 has the support for CZMIL and LAS

Comment pfmabe.software vs shoals.sam.usace.mil (Score 1) 56

by PFMABE on Monday April 06, 2015 @01:02PM (#49415437) Attached to: US NAVY Sonar/Lidar Editing Software Released To the World

The version on pfmabe.software was updated over the weekend (v6.4.0.15) and is being actively maintained and improved. The one on the shoals website is over 3 years old and is missing a great deal of functionality. Nor is it updated/maintained, nor is it likely to be. PFMABE Software was founded to help those users, institutions, governments who wish to use the freely available software. There are other opportunities and other software packages available. The choice is yours.

Submission + - US NAVY Sonar/Lidar Editing Software Released to the World (pfmabe.software) 1

Submitted by PFMABE on Sunday April 05, 2015 @09:06PM

PFMABE writes: The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) has spent 16 years developing the Pure File Magic Area Based Editor (PFMABE) software suite to edit the huge volumes of lidar and sonar data they collect every year. In accordance with 17 USC 105, copyright protection is not available to any work of the US government. Originally developed to run on RedHat OS with network distributed storage, it has been migrated to Windows 7. This software, and accompanying source code (Win & Linux), has been released to the public domain at pfmabe.software, free for download with registration.

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