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Bilko & MultiSpec: Remote Sensing Training Software
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The AGISRS list has an interesting thread on remote sensing software used for basic RS training. In the discussion, UNESCO's Bilko and Purdue's MultiSpec were on the spot. From Bilko's page: "Bilko is a complete system for learning and teaching remote sensing image analysis skills. Current lessons teach the application of remote sensing to oceanography and coastal management, but Bilko routines may be applied to the analysis of any image in an appropriate format, and include a wide range of standard image processing functions."
From MultiSpec's page: "It results from an on-going multiyear research effort which is intended to define robust and fundamentally based technology for analyzing multispectral and hyperspectral image data, and to transfer this technology to the user community in as rapid a manner as possible."
gvSIG and Sextante, ILWIS and SPRING were also mentioned, there are other free and open source remote sensing software, such as GRASS GIS, OSSIM and RAT, but they're not focused training newcomers.
Our Education topic will reveal a few other tools for the classroom.
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