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| Developer(s) | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. |
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| Initial release | May 2, 2001 |
| Stable release | 4.10.0 (October 15, 2012) [±] |
| Preview release | 4.11.0 rc1 (March 15, 2013) |
| Written in | C++, Python |
| Operating system | Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP & Windows XP x64, Linux, Solaris 10 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Remote sensing application |
| License | LGPL 2.1 |
| Website | http://opticks.org/ |
Opticks is a remote sensing application that supports imagery, video (motion imagery), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, and other types of remote sensing data. Opticks supports processing remote sensing video in the same manner as it supports imagery, which differentiates it from other remote sensing applications. Opticks was initially developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and other organizations for the United States Intelligence Community. Ball Aerospace open sourced Opticks hoping to increase the demand for remote sensing data and broaden the features available in existing remote sensing software. The Opticks software and its extensions are developed by over twenty different organizations, and over two hundred users are registered users at http://opticks.org.[1][2][3] Future planned enhancements include adding the ability to ingest and visualize lidar data, as well as a three-dimensional (3-D) visualization capability.
Opticks can also be used as a remote sensing software development framework. Developers can extend Opticks functionality using its plug-in architecture and public application programming interface (API). Opticks is open source, licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1. Opticks was brought into the open source community in Dec 2007 and has a large developer community. For more information, see the history of Opticks.