1. Opticks Demo for OhioView
5 November 2010

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What is Opticks?
 Perform Image and Video Analysis
─ Spectral, Synthetic Aperture Radar,
Thermal
 Similar to the following commercial
tools:
─ SOCET GXP, IMAGINE, RemoteView,
ENVI
 Extendable with plug-ins:
─ Add import/export support for new file
formats
─ Implement new data processing
algorithms
─ Add new windows, mouse modes,
toolbars, keyboard shortcuts
 Most of the application is implemented
as extensions using our public
extension API

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Open-Sourcing Opticks
 Originally developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (BATC) for the US Air
Force (USAF) for hyperspectral analysis starting in Spring 2000.
 Spelling of Opticks was chosen to match the title of Isaac Newton’s book
 BATC and USAF started working jointly in 2006 to release the core application as open-
source. Specifically LGPL v2.1.
 Opticks was released as open-source in December 2007 and both BATC and USAF
continue to support this effort.
 Since then, the following extensions have been open-sourced by BATC and USAF:
─ IDL Scripting
─ Python Scripting
─ Spectral Processing

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University Applications
 Nathan Jennings is using Opticks as part of the lab for GEOG 342 (Introduction to
Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing) at American River College in Sacramento
─ He ported some of his pre-existing radar processing code into an Opticks extension
and has published the extension to the http://opticks.org/ website.
 Opticks participated in Google Summer of Code 2010
─ Two university students wrote extensions to Opticks over the 10 week summer of
code period and published the capability to the http://opticks.org/ website.
 The Python Scripting extension allows for easy algorithm development and prototyping
─ NumPy bring array processing capabilities similar to Matlab, IDL to Python
─ Opticks, Python, Python Scripting extension for Opticks and NumPy are free and
open-source
─ Students can work at home or in lab

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Collaboration
 User mailing list
 Developer mailing list
 Real-time chat
 Extensions can be developed and shared on http://opticks.org/
 Source code and documentation contributions welcome