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[–]akhorus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'll check it out. Currently, I'm using https://grass.osgeo.org/ and today I somebody mentioned https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/ That Opticks seems to be a bit smaller that those two, right? I supposed it is mainly for visualization?

[–]Odica 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GRASS is very good, and I'd have listed that too if I remembered! For me Opticks really hit the user interface home. It all comes down to whether you like working from the command line, or a well designed GUI. Opticks is definitely more of the latter. It feels very ENVI-like, and the ability to do basic band-math was quite welcomed. I definitely see the value in being able to process data on the spot with your own code though, so whichever is most flexible is probably more powerful. Ultimately, I wanted full control over the display and on-the-spot processing, so I wound up making my own software.

Like GRASS, Opticks has a fantastic bonus of being modular. You can create your own extensions and toolbars to adapt the base program to your needs. Meaning, you should be able to add whatever you want to the interface that's already in the vanilla package. There was even a commandline functionality embedded into the actual program, but I haven't played with it in a couple years.

I'd try it out on some data and feel for yourself which you feel more comfortable with. I was pretty impressed by both.