QtVue

Data visualization is an important task in science, this is why suitable tools are requiered. Nowadays, exploring geospatial data is common in many fields and several tools exist from both commercial and free solutions. Nevertheless, none of them offer a versatile, light, and fancy way to visualize planetary mission data. In addition, the datum of each planetary bodies involved (i.e., planets, satellites, small bodies...) is usually not well supported. QtVue project aims to offer a such solution. Using the Gdal library with OpenGL, QtVue will ultimately offer to the user (i.e., planetary scientist) an easy way to explore geospatial data as well as a fancy display for their presentations, papers or any communication of their results. Reading PDS (NASA planetary data system) as well as VICAR (NASA/JPL) and ISIS (USGS) files is part of the main focuses. Additionnal formats will be readable (thanks to GDAL library) such as Geo/Tiff, GMT/netCDF, DEM-USGS, Er Mapper, NOAA vertical Datum, ENVI, SGI, Terragen and many others.