We are happy to announce that OTB and Monteverdi have entered the 3.12 release candidate stage!
You can find the source (OTB and Monteverdi) and binary packages (Monteverdi form Mac OS X and Windows) here.
Some of the notable changes in this release are:
- Large JPEG2000 file (Pleiades-like) support and Pleiades metadata handling in OTB (more information here)
- Efficient JPEG2000 visualisation and ROI decompression tools in Monteverdi
- Revamp of otb applications in a generic and scalable framework (more information here) : launch applications from Command-Line, from an auto-generated QT GUI, from python, from within QGis …
- Lots of new algorithms : Dimensionality Reduction (ICA, PCA, MNF, MAF …), change detection (MAD), Hyperspectral Unmixing, elevation map from stereo data, compare segmentation with a ground truth (Hoover) …
- And various bug fixes.
There are a lot more new things coming with this release ! For more information, please read the complete release note available here.
As usual, Release Candidate are made to be tested and stressed, so do not hesitate to give it a try and report whatever you find suspicious on the users list, or directly on the BugTracker.
Also note that a teaser of what can be done with OTB is now available here !
Happy Testing!
Manuel, for the OTB team