Bug#732531: ITP: pktools -- A collection of programs to process geo raster images

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>

* Package name    : pktools
  Version         : 2.4.3
  Upstream Author : Pieter Kempeneers <kempenep@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://www.nongnu.org/pktools/html/index.html
* License         : GPL3
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : A collection of programs to process geo raster images

pktools is a collection of programs written in C++ to perform
operations, mostly on raster images. It heavily relies on the Geospatial
Data Abstraction Library GDAL and OGR. The
programs are similar to the gdal tools (gdalinfo, gdal_translate,
gdal_merge,...) and some of the functionalities provided in pktools
already exist in the gdal tools. The reason for implementing pktools is
a combination of personal preference and additional functionality.
All utilities in pktools use command line options and have a built in help.

A list of tools available:

    pkascii2img program to create raster image based on ascii file
    pkascii2ogr program to create vector points or polygons from text file
    pkclassify_nn classify raster image using Artificial Neural Network
    pkclassify_svm classify raster image using Support Vector Machine
    pkcreatect program to create and import colour table to GTiff image
    pkcrop perform raster data operations on image such as crop, extract and stack bands
    pkdiff program to compare two raster image files
    pkdsm2shadow program to calculate sun shadow based on digital surface model and sun angles
    pkdumpimg program to dump image content to ascii or std out
    pkdumpogr dump ogr file to text file or standard output
    pkeditogr program to edit (rename fields) ogr fil
    pkegcs Utility for raster files in European Grid Coordinate System
    pkenhance program to enhance raster images
    pkextract extract pixel values from raster image from a (vector or raster) sample
    pkfillnodata program to fill holes in raster image
    pkfilterascii program to filter data in ASCII file (spectral respons function, dwt)
    pkfilter program to filter raster images
    pkfs_nn feature selection for nn classifier
    pkfs_svm feature selection for svm classifier
    pkgetmask program to create mask image based on values in input raster image
    pkinfo program to retrieve information from raster images
    pklas2img program to create (e.g., DEM) raster image from las files
    pkmosaic program to create mosaic geo-referenced images
    pkndvi program to calculate vegetation index image
    pkopt_svm program to optimize parameters for SVM classification
    pkpolygonize program to make vector file from raster image
    pkreclass program to replace pixel values in raster image
    pkregression_nn regression with artificial neural network (multi-layer perceptron)
    pksetmask program to apply mask image (set invalid values) to raster image
    pksieve program to sieve filter raster image
    pkstatascii
    pkstatogr program to calculate basic statistics from vector file