ISIS Software Download

Introduction

ISIS Tools provides a set of free image analysis software packages for Linux computers. The following packages are provided:

GENIE uses techniques from genetic programming to build customized spatio-spectral algorithms for a wide range of sensors (electro-optical, infrared, and other modalities; panchromatic through hyperspectral data). GENIE is designed to process imagery, and has also been applied to image-like signals (e.g., "waterfall" displays).

Genie Pro is a complete rewrite of the GENIE software for Windows workstations, incorporating faster algorithms, support for many more standard image formats ( including image file sizes > gigabyte), and vectorization tools (including export of results to vector ESRI Shape files). Genie Pro is being released under a commercial license and test and evaluation copies of the software are available.

Afreet exploits recent advances in computational machine learning theory, combining adaptive spatio-spectral image processing with a powerful support vector machine (SVM) supervised classifier to process imagery and image-like signals.

Aladdin is a simple graphical user interface for Genie and Afreet. Aladdin is written in Java, and can read image files in NASA FITS file format. Third party tools for reading and writing FITS files are available at the NASA FITSIO homepage, and at the IDL Astronomy User's Library. An Aladdin tutorial and user's guide is available on our documentation page.

Magic Lamp is a more advanced graphical user interface (GUI) for Genie and Afreet able to handle large image files in many different formats. Magic Lamp is written in C, and uses the GDAL library. A full list of GDAL-supported image formats is available here. Magic Lamp is designed to resemble Aladdin, with additional GUI features and controls derived from OpenEV. Please see the OpenEV Online Help and our Aladdin tutorial and user's guide for information on running Magic Lamp.

Information on how to start using ISIS Tools is available on our documentation page. The software distribution includes a directory of sample data, which is installed in /usr/share/isis/sample-data .

Binaries are available for Redhat Linux (versions 7.3, 8, and 9) Linux systems (prepared as RPMs), and our source code is available for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIX users. A Windows release is expected in mid 2004.

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This open source software is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). Please see the source file headers for more details. And please let us know about your improvements as we would like all users to benefit from your generous contribution to this open source project.

If you have superuser access on your machine (or can ask your system administrator for help), you can install it all with a single cut and paste operation using the Debian 'apt' installation tool:

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Red Hat-sponsored "Fedora core 1 (Yarrow)" distribution

rpm -Uv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/1/apt/apt-0.5.15cnc3-0.1.fr.i386.rpm
echo 'rpm http://isis.lanl.gov/software redhat/9/i386 isis isis-thirdparty' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u install isis

On Red Hat 9 paste in these four lines:

rpm -Uv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
echo 'rpm http://isis.lanl.gov/software redhat/9/i386 isis isis-thirdparty' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u install isis

On Red Hat 8 paste in these four lines:

rpm -Uv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/8.0/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
echo 'rpm http://isis.lanl.gov/software redhat/8/i386 isis isis-thirdparty' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u install isis

On Red Hat 7.3 paste these four lines:

rpm -Uv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/7.3/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr0.rh73.2.i386.rpm
echo 'rpm http://isis.lanl.gov/software redhat/7.3/i386 isis isis-thirdparty' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u install isis

On Red Hat 7.2 paste these four lines:

rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/7.2/apt/apt-0.3.19cnc55-fr7.i386.rpm
echo 'rpm http://isis.lanl.gov/software redhat/7.2/i386 isis isis-thirdparty' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u install isis

Or, if you prefer installing RPMs by hand, you can also directly browse our RPM collection.

After installation, you can launch one of our graphical user interfaces by running the following command from your shell prompt:

 aladdin -M 64 

Or you can try our newer magic-lamp interface with the command:

 magic-lamp 

Magic Lamp is superior to Aladdin for working with large images (>100MB) and for working with many types of image file formats, though user documentation for Magic Lamp is currently unavailable (see information above).

Contact details

Please send you comments, inquires, and bug-reports to isis-feedback@nis.lanl.gov.

All e-mail sent to isis-feedback@nis.lanl.gov will be forwarded to the ISIS developers. Unfortunately, since this is a free service, we are unable to guarantee a reply to every e-mail we receive. You may like to check our online Frequently Asked Questions page at ISIS Tools FAQ in case a diagnosis and solution for your problem is already available.

To improve the chances of our being able to answer your e-mail, please include a brief description of exactly what is going wrong, as much information as possible about your system (machine type, operating system and version, amount of RAM, and anything else you think might help us), and what you've tried so far. If possible, please include a copy of the error message.