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AARS: The aim of the Association is to contribute to a better knowledge of the existence of a Saharan rock art and to undertake actions to highlight it. The priority actions are the diffusion of documents, the exchange of ideas and the encouragement of an attitude relative to the conservation of the sites. Free Software useful for the Desert Explorer Monteverdi: An advanced tool for remote sensing, image interpretation. Fantastic. Better than many commercial softwares. ImageJi: A fantastic program for image processing. With the D-Strectch plug-in it represents an essential tool in rock art studies of paintings. Stereo Photo Maker: Stereophotography made easy. Mesh Lab: Commercial software for 3D modeeling cost thousands of Euros. Thanks to the University of Pisa (in the person of Paolo Cignoni) you can enjoy 3D modelling an edit meshes for free. Quantum GIS: As a professional geologist I use the ESRI suite (aka Arcmap) when I am at office. On my personal computer at home I develop my private projects with Quantum GIS, an open-source-freeware GIS. The latest version is more than enough for all the mapping purposes of the High Tech Desert Explorer. It is not less powerful than Arcmap 9.0. I stronglyrecommend it. People familiar with Arcmap will find it working practically in the same way. Quantum GIS is now eroding the Arcmap predominance even among the professional cartographers ... GpicSync: What you need to geo-tag images without connection cables. Just syncronize your camera to the GPS and... hoplà! TrackMaker: a complete GPS navigation software by Odillon Ferreira Junior. I love it. I often used it to quickly edit my GPS files before exporting them to my Libyan Desert GSI Project. Fast to load an more efficient for this purpose than many other free and commercial softwares. GeoTiffExamine: to quickly edit, copy and export the georeferencing data embedded in Geotiff files. A nifty tool for the digital cartographer. Extremely useful if you extract features form aerial or satellite images with Photoshop, which are georeferenced as Geotiff (Phostoshop does not preserved embedded Geotiff data but is can perform many of the same operations usually found in very expensive remote sensing software does). Free Software you may find useful if you enjoyed Terramata Prof. Nikos Papamarkos: on the personal web site of this Greek scientist devoted to the problems od artificial intelligence and human vision I found many interesting pieces of software that can be used in better performing vectorial extraction of features from satellite images or rock art. |

