Windows binary packages are available for Windows 7 or higher. They can be downloaded from otb download page .

Pick the correct version (32 bit or 64 bit) depending on your system.

Notes:

  • You must have “Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019” installed for using this package. It can be downloaded freely from microsoft

Extract the archive and use one of the launchers, they contain all applications and their launchers (both command line and graphical launchers are provided):

  • monteverdi.bat: A launcher script for Monteverdi
  • mapla.bat: A launcher script for Mapla
  • otbenv.bat: A script to initialize the environment for OTB executables
  • bin: A folder containing application launchers (otbcli.bat, otbgui.bat) and the DLLs.
  • lib: A folder containing application DLLs.
  • include: A folder containing all the necessary headers to compile OTB based projects.
  • tool: A folder containing useful scripts to test the installation or to uninstall OTB libraries and headers while keeping all the dependencies.

The applications can be launched from the Mapla launcher. If you want to use the otbcli and otbgui launchers, you can initialize a command prompt with otbenv.bat.

The package can be used to compile other projects using OTB (binaries, libraries and headers are included). If you want to build OTB from source using this package, you should first uninstall the specific OTB files from the package to leave only the dependencies (what we call an XDK). You can do it using the supplied script tools/uninstall_otb.bat.

In the package you also have a template project for Visual 2015 OTB Project.zip. This template can be placed in your user Visual 2015 template directory : %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates. The script start_devenv.bat allows to copy the template in that folder and start Visual Studio.

Python bindings

Since OTB 6.7.0 OTB bindings for Python 3.5 are distributed as a binary package. Since OTB 8.0.0, the bindings for Python 3.7 are distributed Please note that using a different Python version may not be compatible with OTB wrappings. If the installation completes without issue, information relating to your Python bindings will be provided.

You must have Python numpy bindings installed in your system. They can be installed locally without admin rights as follows: “pip install –user numpy”. This is to give users the option to select their own existing Python installation rather than the one dibstributed by the OTB package.

By default, bindings for Python 3.7 will be enabled with the otbenv script.