OTB Plugin installation

Revision as of 10:27, 23 October 2019

• Download latest Orfeo toolbox standalone Binary packages. They are available for Windows 7 or higher, Linux, Mac OS and can be downloaded from the OTB download page.

Installation Guide for Windows

Extract the downloaded OTB binary archive to a local folder (e.g. C:\opt). It contains command line and native otb graphical launchers.

Since QGIS 3.8 "Zanzibar" a Processing OTB plugin ist already included in the default QGIS distribution. No need to install an additional plugin.

For older QGIS Version you may install an external plugin:

• Start QGIS
• Open plugin manager Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins
• Select Settings on left pane and then click Add.. to add a new plugin repository.
• Write Name for repository. eg: CNES plugin repository
• Write URL as http://orfeo-toolbox.org/qgis/plugins.xml and click OK. The repository will be added to the list and status shown as connected. Click Reload all Repositories.

• Select All on the left pane and type otb into the search field.
• Select Processing OTB provider and click Install Plugin. Close.

• Open plugin manager Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins. Click on Installed tab on left and make sure box next to Processing OTB provider is checked.

Configure OTB plugin in QGIS

• Open processing settings from the main menu:

Settings -> Options -> Processing (left panel) You can see OTB under "Providers".

• Expand OTB tab
• Tick Activate box
• Set OTB folder. This is location of your OTB installation (e.g. C:\opt\OTB-6.6.1-Win64)
• Set OTB application folder. This is location of your OTB applications. (e.g. C:\opt\OTB-6.6.1-Win64\lib\otb\applications).
• Click OK to save settings and close dialog. If settings are correct, you will have OTB algorithms loaded in QGIS Processing toolbox.

Installation Guide for Mac OS

• For the OTB Plugin installation Python 2.7 must be installed
• Download and install https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.16/python-2.7.16-macosx10.9.pkg

• Follow the instructions

• Move OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64.run to the Applications folder
• Open Terminal and change direction to Applications

 cd /Applications 

• Make sure the xcrun is installed

 xcode-select --install 

• Install the OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64.run

 chmod +x OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64.run 

 ./OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64.run 

• Start QGIS
• Open plugin manager Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins
• Select Settings on left pane and then click Add.. to add a new plugin repository.
• Write Name for repository. eg: CNES plugin repository
• Write URL as http://orfeo-toolbox.org/qgis/plugins.xml and click OK. The repository will be added to the list and status shown as connected. Click Reload all Repositories.

• Select All on the left pane and type otb into the search field.
• Select Processing OTB provider and click Install Plugin. Close.

• Open plugin manager Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins. Click on Installed tab on left and make sure box next to Processing OTB provider is checked.

Configure OTB plugin in QGIS for MacOS

• Open processing settings from the main menu:

Settings -> Options -> Processing (left panel) You can see OTB under "Providers".

• Expand OTB tab
• Tick Activate box
• Set OTB folder. This is location of your OTB installation (e.g. /Applications/OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64)
• Set OTB application folder. This is location of your OTB applications. (e.g. /Applications/OTB-6.6.1-Darwin64/lib/otb/applications).
• Click OK to save settings and close dialog. If settings are correct, you will have OTB algorithms loaded in QGIS Processing toolbox.