Dear OSGeo community, I have seen several times, as you have probably done many more than myself, that there are projects-to-apply for, which, simply put, are profiling specific Geospatial and Remote Sensing capable applications.
An example _was_ an open international call for a project concerning "(Early) Warning and Mitigating of (Forest) Fires" in Greece [1]. For example, among the obligatory points to be fulfilled by a geospatial toolbox, as asked in this specific tender, there is one about "integrated spectral librairies". This is clearly profiling, if I am not wrong, the ERDAS Imagine commercial and proprietary software. From ERDAS' manual "Spectral Analysis" [1], section "Spectrum Libraries": "...efforts have been made over the past decade to compile databases, termed Spectral Libraries, of the spectra of known materials (Clark et al. 1993b)." and sub-section "Archive Libraries": "Several such Spectrum Libraries are included in the IMAGINE Spectral Analysis software package. " and "...The USGS and JPL mineral libraries (Grove et al. 1992)...", "...Johns Hopkins spectrum libraries (dominantly mid-infrared wavelengths)...", "...the SPECMIN Spectrum Library series of minerals and geologic materials..." and more. ( let aside the fact that I question myself who exactly in the Fire Fighting Service will use such a feature (except of advanced analysts in rare occasions?) and for what reason exactly -- active fire detection, burned area mapping etc., will not suffer from the absence of such a feature! ) the question is: is there any GFOSS that integrates or can access easily such libraries -- thinking from an end-user perspective? Thank you, Nikos --- [1] search for "spectral libraries erdas" or access the manual here: <http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=spectral%20libraries%20erdas&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwf.edu%2Fgis%2Fmanuals%2FSpectralAnalysis.pdf&ei=BRL5UPbRAZKa1AWjmIDYCg&usg=AFQjCNFEPQi0pJRUkCxZU9kJ1Qy0_6ymTg> [2] (in Greek) <http://www.ktpae.gr/index.php?option=com_ktpconsultations&task=Details&id=177> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss