Open Dragon software for aerial/satellite imagery analysis, is now freely available for non-commercial use, and the Java source code will be released as open source by early 2011. OpenDragon provides a robust suite of image processing operations, via an intuitive, responsive, multi-window graphical user interface.

OpenDragon offers a full suite of image analysis and raster GIS capabilities including image enhancement, supervised and unsupervised classification, geometric correction, measurement and statistics, vector capture and display, slope, aspect and buffer calculations and multi-criterion decision making. Open Dragon also includes the Open Dragon Toolkit, which allows users who can program in C to extend the software functionality.

OpenDragon uses an innovative client-server architecture and is based on platform-independent industry standards including Java, XML and HTML. The OpenDragon architecture supports new levels of user extensibility and will eventually allow the software to execute on Windows, Linux, Mac OS/X, and Solaris and other Unix variants.

Platform Requirements :

OpenDragon requires a computer running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista (release 5.10.3 or later required for Vista). Note that Windows 95/98/ME systems are not supported. We recommend at least 256 MBytes of RAM and at least 200 MBytes of available hard disk space. A full-color graphics board and a pointing device (mouse, trackball, etc.) are also required.