OpenEV is an

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geospatial toolkit and a frontend to that toolkit. OpenEV was developed using

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and uses the

GDAL The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats (e.g. shapefile), and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Ope ...

library to display

georeference Georeferencing means that the internal coordinate system of a map or aerial photo image can be related to a geographic coordinate system. The relevant coordinate transforms are typically stored within the image file ( GeoPDF and GeoTIFF are exam ...

d images and

elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vert ...

data. The application also has image editing capabilities and uses

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...

to display elevation data in three-dimensions.

History

The original version of OpenEV was developed by Atlantis Scientific (renamed Vexcel) as a prototype viewer for the

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. Its development was supported by the

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) (formerly ''Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)'') is a branch of Natural Resources Canada's Earth Science Sector. It was created in 1970 with Lawrence Morley as the first Director Gene ...

GeoConnections program and J-2 Geomatics (

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). The goal was to create a free, downloadable, advanced

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viewer that allowed users to work interactively with CGDI data. Vexcel, Inc. was acquired in May, 2006 by

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and left the software to Mario Beauchamp and a team of developers. OpenEV has since been used by

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...

and the

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. It was also the base for the CIETmap software, which is now developed also by Mario Beauchamp.

Supported data

OpenEV supports numerous

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and

vector Vector most often refers to: *Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction *Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematic ...

formats such as

shapefile The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software product ...

s. Since it uses the

library to display images, it supports the same formats.

References

External links

* {{sourceforge, openev Free software programmed in Python Free GIS software Software that uses PyGTK Remote sensing software

History

Supported data

See also

References

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