Opticks Developer Guide/Introduction

Opticks is an open source, remote sensing application. Using Opticks you can create products from satellite and airborne imagery, video (motion imagery), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), multispectral, and hyperspectral data. Opticks is also a developer framework, empowering software developers to extend its functionality. This guide helps C++ developers build capability for Opticks.

This developer guide is divided into five sections. The first section gives a general overview of features of the Opticks remote sensing development framework. The second section helps developers get started. This section describes how to download Opticks and get the necessary components to start developing with Opticks. The third section give an overview of Opticks development concepts and terminology. The fourth section describes how to setup your build environment, and the last section describes how to get started building the sample plug-ins.