[udig-devel] Image processing routines (and the BEAM software)

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi all,
I would like to have some feedback on the attempts so far from people  
to add image processing functionality to uDig.

I have seen some posts on integrating OSSIM for instance (!?).

I was wondering if routines developed for the BEAM software (ESA  
funded) could be integrated into uDig. The BEAM software is released  
under GPL and seems powerful, fast and modular. Couldn't a  
collaboration be established between the two projects to benefit of  
the flexible architecture of uDig/Eclipse and of the uDig community  
while using the powerful routines developed by BEAM? BEAM is all  
developed in Java and the source code is available through the  
installer. I do not see an active developer community for the project  
though.

A merger may result in a set of powerful, fully Java based image  
processing routines.

http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam/

Looking foward for some ideas and suggestions here,
Ciao,
Jeroen