FAO/GIEWS - Windisp Homepage

Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 - Rome, ITALY
E - mail: Giews1@Fao.org
Tel: (39) 06 5705 3099
Fax: (39) 06 5705 4495

No liability can be accepted by the FAO GIEWS or supporting institutions for any impacts resulting from the application of methods described at, or in manuals made available at this site. The WinDisp software is in the public domain and FAO, nor any other of the participating organisations above, takes any responsibility for impacts resulting from the use of the software, or for any problems encountered while using the software.

Data made available at this site were obtained from official and unofficial sources and are used for instructional purposes only as part of the documentation being supplied with the software. The designations employed and the presentation of the material and maps in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.


		Windisp is a public domain, easy to use software package for the display and analysis of satellite images, maps and associated databases, with an emphasis on early warning for food security. WinDisp was originally developed for the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System. It allows users to: Display and analyse satellite images Compare two images and analyse trends in a time-series of images Extract and graph trends from a number of satellite images such as during the growing season for comparison with other years Compute new images from a series of images Display tabular data in map format Build custom products combining images, maps and specialised legends Write and execute batch files to automate routine and tedious tasks Build a customized project interface for providing users with detailed menus of available data for a country or a specific area See a screenshot of Windisp. Version 5.1 is now ready for testing: Version 5.1 temporarily only in English. Simultaneous zoom and pan ESRI Shape files are fully supported in addition to .bna. On-creen digitizing Improved legend creation for thematic mapping (various scaling methods available, new color table editor, user defined or automatic legend generation, possibility to save custom legend parameters and to associate a user defined legend to a map) Median calculation processing for satellite images. Lots of bug fixes... Click here to download

Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 - Rome, ITALY E - mail: Giews1@Fao.org Tel: (39) 06 5705 3099 Fax: (39) 06 5705 4495 No liability can be accepted by the FAO GIEWS or supporting institutions for any impacts resulting from the application of methods described at, or in manuals made available at this site. The WinDisp software is in the public domain and FAO, nor any other of the participating organisations above, takes any responsibility for impacts resulting from the use of the software, or for any problems encountered while using the software. Data made available at this site were obtained from official and unofficial sources and are used for instructional purposes only as part of the documentation being supplied with the software. The designations employed and the presentation of the material and maps in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.