Developed by Pranab Banerjee of the Space Dynamics Laboratory, NEAT (NITF Exploration and Analysis Tool), is an easy to use GUI-based tool to view and explore NITF 2.1 (MIL STD 2500B) compliant files. Version 1.1 has the following features:

A flexible and powerful commandline interface
Interactive OpenGL accelerated image viewer (zoom, rotate, filter, etc.)
Ability to save images in various formats
Works under Python 2.2 and 2.3
Ability to view all header information–main header, image subheader(s), graphic subheader(s), text subheader(s)
Ability to view CMETA TRE (Tagged Record Extension) for SAR data
1 bit monochrome, 8 and 24 bit uncompressed image viewing
8 and 12 bit JPEG compressed image viewing
Blocked imagery (uncompressed or JPEG compressed) viewing
Multi-band image (uncompressed or JPEG compressed bands) viewing
Experimental CGM viewing (through the open source GPLOT package)
Works as a web browser helper application

Developed under Linux using Python, NEAT has been tested to run under Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and Simply MEPIS 2004 Linux distributions.

External Dependencies:

Python 2.2 or 2.3
wxPython for the GUI
vtk (through its Python wrapper) including wxVTKRenderWindow support
Open source "netpbm" package (included in almost every Linux distribution) for image format conversion
gv PostScript viewer

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NEAT NITF Exploration and Analysis Tool

NEAT
NITF Exploration and Analysis Tool