Open Source Software

Cost intensive commercial 'all in one' software packages are not mandatory to professionally work in the field of remote sensing and GIS. There are solutions with open source software for nearly all areas.

GEOSCAP offers advice on availability and composition of the individual OS packages and takes care of creating an effective interface if different OS software packages will be combined.

GEOSCAP offers:

◌ Advice on selecting specific open source software like QGIS, UMN MapServer
◌ Usage of special OS program libraries like Orfeo ToolBox, GDAL, OSSIM and usage of OS programming languages like Octave (Matlab), GDL (IDL)
◌ Programming of interfaces to automatically process data in several combined OS software packages