InterIMAGE is an open source, software development initiative that makes part of an international scientific cooperation project leaded by the Computer Vision Lab of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and by the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE).

InterIMAGE is a multi-platform framework, written in C++, counting currently with implementations for LINUX and Windows operational systems. Moreover, InterIMAGE provides support for the integration of image processing operators in the interpretation process and, as such operators are treated as external programs by its control mechanism, they can be coded in any computer language, and can even be proprietary programs. The InterIMAGE framework offers, nonetheless, a repository of operators, called TerraAIDA (http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terraaida), assembled with the software classes and functions supplied by the TerraLib library.

InterIMAGE is founded on GeoAIDA, developed in the TNT Institute (Institut für Informationsverarbeitung) at the Leibniz Hannover University, Germany, and it inherited from that system its basic functional design, knowledge structures and control mechanisms.

Reports on bugs, requests for further information and suggestions of new functionalities should be sent to lvc_inter@ele.puc-rio.br.