Ossim Quickstart

Open Source Software Image Map (OOSIM) is a high performance engine for remote sensing, image processing, geographical information system and photogrammetry.

This Quick Start describes how to:

• View raster images with imagelinker
• Run ossimPlanet

Imagelinker

• Start Imagelinker from its icon from the directory “Spatial Tools” on the desktop

• Select the project file, using File ‣ Open Project ‣ /home/user/ossim/landsatrgb.prj

• Go to the menu bar ‣ window ‣ tile

• Select an image window ‣ select the pan icon ‣ click on the image ‣ press the button “propagate”

• Verify you see a 3 gray satelite images.

  

For the full tutorial see this blog article.

OssimPlanet

• Start OssimPlanet from its icon from the directory “Desktop-GIS” on the desktop
• Select File ‣ Open Image ‣ /home/user/data/raster/band1.tiff
• Go to menu ‣ Open kml ‣ /home/user/data/kml/*.kml
• Go on the legend tree ‣ Image Layers ‣ open the trees ‣ double-click on the band1 image, you should see the scene zoom to the image’s location
• Navigate the scene.

Note

To turn off the daylight auto-shading, un-check File ‣ Preferences ‣ Environment ‣ Enable Ephemeris

What Next?

• Ossim Tutorials

  Follow the tutorials to learn more about Ossim.

• Documentation on DVD

  See also the included documentation on this DVD.