ILWIS

ILWIS
Developer(s) 52° North
Stable release 3.7.1 Open / September 15, 2010; 16 months ago (2010-09-15)
Written in C++
Operating system MS-Windows
Type Geographic information system
License GPL
Website 52°North Product page

ILWIS (Integrated Land and Water Information System) is a GIS / Remote sensing software for both vector and raster processing. ILWIS features include digitizing, editing, analysis and display of data as well as production of quality maps. ILWIS was initially developed and distributed by ITC Enschede (International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation) in the Netherlands for use by its researchers and students, but since 1 July 2007 it has been distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is thus free software.[1][2] Having been used by many students, teachers and researchers for more than two decades, ILWIS is one of the most user-friendly integrated vector and raster software programmes currently available. ILWIS has some very powerful raster analysis modules, a high-precision and flexible vector and point digitizing module, a variety of very practical tools, as well as a great variety of user guides and training modules all available for downloading. The current version is ILWIS 3.5 Open. Similar to the GRASS GIS in many respects - but more user-friendly -, ILWIS is currently available natively only on Microsoft Windows. However, a Linux Wine manual has been made available.[3]

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History

In late 1984, ITC was awarded a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which led to the development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) which could be used as a tool for land use planning and watershed management studies. By the end of 1988 the DOS version 1.0 of the Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) was released. Two years later, ILWIS was made commercial with ITC establishing a worldwide distributors network. ILWIS 2.0 for Windows was released at the end of 1996, and ILWIS 3.0 by mid 2001. On 1 January 2004, ILWIS 3.2 was released as a shareware (one month trial offer).Since July 1, 2007, ILWIS has been distributed as an open source software under GPL license.[4]

Release history

This table is based on the release notes of ILWIS.

Old Version Current Version Future Version
Branch Version Release date Significant changes
3.1 3.1 April 2002
Patch 3.11 September 2002 Direct import of Aster satellite images level 1a and 1b, including all needed geometric and radiometric corrections. This functionality is integrated in the Import Map Wizard.
Stereopair from DTM - Stereo pair from DTM operation creates a stereo pair from a single raster map and a Digital Terrain Model (DTM). These stereo pairs have the same usability as the Epipolar Stereo Pair.
Patch 3.12a August 2003 ID Grid map - creates a polygon map given a coordinate system and an attribute table. The polygon map consists of rectangular grid cells with a unique ID and can be linked to a table with attribute data when sample data is available.
Spherical Distance option was added to the operations Spatial Correlation, Cross Variogram, Nearest Point, Moving Average, Moving Surface, Kriging and CoKriging. This option calculates distances over the sphere instead of in a plane.
Export to ArcPad .PRJ - ILWIS coordinate systems can be exported to an ArcPad .prj file.
3.2 3.2 January, 2004 Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation (SMCE)
Hydrologic Flow Operations
Find Datum Parameters Wizard
GARtrip import
Patch 3.21 August, 2004 Extensions in Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation - Slicing, histograms, aggregated values, and an improvement in class map standardization.
Improvement in calling external executable files - Support for parameter passing, wait-till-finished option and error handling, and inclusion in a script as part of a batch process.
Support for coordinates for images from the MeteoSat-8 satellite.
3.3 3.3 September 2005 The SMCE application extended with overlay of reference maps, combination of spatial and non-spatial MCE, and interactive function graphs for standardization.
New applications for DEM hydro-processing implemented, like topological optimization, drainage network extraction, catchment extraction, horton statistics etc.
Georeferencing with additional supports up to 8 fiducial marks, sub-pixel precision and 3D coordinate transformations using 7 or 10 datum parameters.
Import and export using the GDAL library.
Projections for geostationary satellites.
Calculation and statistical functions for map lists.
3.4 3.4 Open July 1, 2007 GPL version from 52° N with proprietary components removed.
3.5 3.5 December 12, 2008
3.6 3.6 April 21, 2009
3.7 3.7 March 25, 2010

Roadmap

ILWIS building currently relies on the Microsoft Visual 2008 compile environment which will be switched over to the GCC compiler. After successful completion of the migration to GCC, the plan is to break down ILWIS Open into individual components. To reuse and deploy ILWIS’ GIS and image processing functionality also in spatial data infrastructures (SDI), its functions will be offered in an open framework as distributed services, in two ways:

  1. As java service proxies accessible to programmers and
  2. As OGC - based services accessible to client applications.

The framework supports the search and access of services through a service registry and can be used together with client tools like uDig.[4]

Features

ILWIS uses GIS techniques that integrate image processing capabilities, a tabular database and conventional GIS characteristics.[5] The major features include:

Applications

Applications in Earth Sciences

Applied geomorphology and Natural hazards

Engineering geology

Surface hydrology

Hydro geology

Geology

Applications in Environmental Management

Neighborhood modelling

Data combination

Soil pollution management

Land Resource and Urban Surveys

Urban surveys

Land use planning

Soil surveys

Global radiation studies

Application in Cartography

Other Applications

Criticisms

ILWIS Open Source, is very user-friendly, and it has very powerful GIS analysis modules, but it currently lacks the Importing modules through proprietary PCI's GeoGateway, which has been removed in version 3.4 open and later. The available GDAL library is not so well integrated.[28]

See also

References

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