OTB Plugin installation

• 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.

Windows

Pick the correct version (32 bit or 64 bit) depending on your system from the otb download page. Unzip the downloaded OTB binary archive to a local folder (e.g. C:\opt). The folder contains both command line and native otb graphical launchers. 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.

Configure OTB plugin

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

• 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-7.0.0-Win64)
• Set OTB application folder. This is location of your OTB applications. (e.g. C:\opt\OTB-7.0.0-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.

Mac OS

On the [otb download page] right click on MacOS. Save as...

• 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 

Configure OTB plugin

• 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.

Linux

On the otb download page right click on Linux. Save as... Choose a folder where files are stored permanently e.g. /home/username/ Open a terminal: Ctrl + alt + t Uncompress the archive to a folder where you have full permissions (e.g. in your homes: ~/otb):

chmod +x OTB-7.0.0-Linux64.run
./OTB-7.0.0-Linux64.run

The applications can be launched from the Mapla launcher. If you want to use the otbcli and otbgui launchers, you can initialize your environment with

source OTB-7.0.0-Linux/otbenv.profile

Configure OTB plugin

• 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. /home/[username]/OTB-7.0.0-Linux64)
• Set OTB application folder. This is location of your OTB applications. (e.g. /home/username/OTB-7.0.0-Linux64/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.