bestgui was specially designed to be a GUI front-end for BEST. BEST or Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox is an ESA (European Space Agency) software tool designed to facilitate the use of ESA SAR data.
For legal reasons BEST is never included in the BESTGUI packages. You have to download and install it separately.
Here are some key features of "bestgui":
· enhanced menus and toolbars
· persistent preferences
· smart environment handling
· colorized output log
· progress bars for processing completion
· the ability of stopping a running task from the GUI (stop button)
· a dialog for the AoI specification
· output preview for all (and not only) the tools that have an image as output
Requirements:
· Python
· GTK+
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· documentation largely reworked and updated
· the sphinx_ tool is used to generate the entire documentation set
· a new API section have been added to the user manual
· fixed py2exe standalone application and installer
· now the subprocess handler explicitly sets the workdir and the environment of the external tool
· fixed workdir handling
· support for BEST v. 4.2.0 and higher
· added checks on PyGTK version
· added support for gtksourceview2
· improved BEST version detection
· logging improved
· added new command line options: one to enable debug mode and one to set the logfile name
· improved BEST tools defaults (input/output folders)