InterIMAGE is an open source, software development initiative, which is part of an international scientific cooperation project leaded by the Computer Vision Lab of the Electrical Engineering Department from 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++, 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 even in proprietary programs. The InterIMAGE framework offers, nonetheless, a repository of operators, called TerraAIDA (http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terraaida), assembled with software classes and functions supplied by the TerraLib library.

InterIMAGE is based on GeoAIDA, developed in the TNT Institute (Institut für Informationsverarbeitung) at the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, and it inherited from this 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.