SPRING

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SPRING is GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is freely available on the Internet. It has Windows and Linux versions.

SPRING provides a comprehensive set of functions, including tools for Satellite Image Processing, Digital Terrain Modeling, Spatial Analysis, Geostatistics, Spatial Statistics, Spatial Databases and Map Management.

SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research(INPE), who is developing SPRING since 1992. SPRING has required over 200 man/years of development and includes extensive documentation, tutorials and examples. More than 70,000 users from 60 countries have downloaded the software, as of January 2007.

Contents 1 External links 1.1 Partners 1.2 More information 1.3 Related projects

[edit] External links

[edit] Partners

• INPE - National Institute for Space Research.

[edit] More information

• SPRING web site - Official project web site.
• Paper about SPRING - "SPRING: Integrating remote sensing and GIS by object-oriented data modelling" Camara G, Souza RCM, Freitas UM, Garrido J Computers & Graphics, 20: (3) 395-403, May-Jun 1996.

[edit] Related projects

• TerraLib project.