NASA has just released all of its core VICAR applications as open source, distributing its tools to the international community.
NASA has begun developing VICAR tools (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) 1966 and were originally built to process multidimensional digital imaging data.
These applications were used by space service of USA, για τη μεταφορά και processing images and data from her missions.
So simply saying it is a powerful set of tools will not portray reality as it is being developed here and 15 years by a service staffed by leading scientists.
NASA has recently shown that it is moving in the direction of open source and the tools it has today are not the first.
The VICAR collection consists of about 350 applications.
But what exactly does VICAR do?
"VICAR" stands for Video Imaging Communication and Recovery, and is a general purpose image editing software system developed since 1966 to process digital multidimensional imaging data. VICAR was developed primarily for image processing by Jet Propulsion Laboratory unmanned spacecraft. It is now used for many other applications, such as biomedical image processing, cartography, geology, astronomy, and geological research. Not only is it used by JPL, but also by various universities, NASA websites and other scientific / research institutes in the United States and Europe. "
says his official website JPL.
You can find all of these NASA tools in GitHub, where they have been posted under the Open Source 1.3 license.
Download Github VICAR applications
