Welcome to the ILWIS Community web page. We focus on:

• the advancement of ILWIS into re-usable, interoperable web services,
• the advancement of ILWIS as client software in a distributed service environment (SDI),
• supporting research groups that want to develop extensions to the existing ILWIS components,
• building a strong coherence with activities within 52°North’s Geoprocessing Community.

ILWIS is a remote sensing and GIS software which integrates image, vector and thematic data in one unique and powerful package on the desktop. ILWIS delivers a wide range of features including import/export, digitizing, editing, analysis and display of data, as well as production of quality maps.

What is ILWIS?

ILWIS is a remote sensing and GIS software which integrates image, vector and thematic data in one unique and powerful package on the desktop. ILWIS delivers a wide range of features including import/export, digitizing, editing, analysis and display of data, as well as production of quality maps. ILWIS software is renowned for its functionality, user-friendliness and low cost, and has established a wide user community over the years of its development. Even after its last commercial release in 2005, its user community has remained active, both within and outside ITC.

Why open source?

In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and deployment of GIS functionality in a wider community, the closed source ILWIS software migrated to 52°North as open source software as of July 1, 2007. More detailed information concerning ILWIS's history can be found here .

Community Leader : Rob Lemmens (lemmens @ 52north.org)