Re: Geospatial data functions

[Stuart Edwards]

On Apr 23, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 22 April 2011 22:49, Chethan S <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> I am a student working on geospatial data, particularly satellite imagery.
>> Currently I am a MATLAB user wanting to switch to GNU Octave. With a casual
>> web search I learnt that GNU Octave is missing out several functions for
>> Geospatial Data Import and Access
>> (http://www.denney.ws/octave/3.0.1/Mapping.html).
>> 
>> Are those functions available in latest version of Octave?
> 
> You can see which functions are available in Octave or Octave-Forge at
> the following location:
> 
>     http://octave.sourceforge.net/functions_by_alpha.php
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that the geospatial toolbox is still not at
> all implemented, and it looks like a major effort to do so. I do not
> know what to suggest. Sorry.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
> 
Depending on your needs, GRASS GIS ( http://grass.fbk.eu/) has some useful 
image processing capabilities

Stu