GuidosToolbox – Installation

This document provides installation instructions for the image analysis program
GuidosToolbox. The software is available for Linux (64bit), macOS (64bit), and Microsoft
Windows (32/64bit) and can be downloaded at:
http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download/software/guidos/

GuidosToolbox includes the IDL Virtual Machine and additional GIS-software (MSPA,
GDAL, FWTools) which can be used to export your data as raster image overlays for
visualization in Google Earth and to pre-/post-process any raster data. GuidosToolbox is
completely self-contained and fully functional in its own directory. It can be installed/copied
to any directory on your system or any external device.

System requirements: PC/Mac with a minimum of 2GB RAM (the more the better)

Limitations: maximum image dimension in pixels:

to be loaded in GuidosToolbox: 30000×30000,
for Contortion analysis: 5000×5000
for MSPA-analysis: 10000×10000 on MS-Windows; larger on Linux/MacOS and
dynamically calculated depending on the available amount of RAM: ~25000×25000 for
16GB RAM and 75000×75000 for 128GB RAM. Images larger than the maximum size for
MSPA can be processed via a buffered tiling process called MSPA-tiling, more details in
GuidosToolbox under: Help → GuidosToolbox Manual and Help → MSPA Guide

Linux: (as normal user, not as root!):

a) Download the file GuidosToolbox<version>_linux.run to your $HOME directory, i.e.,
/home/peter
b) Open a terminal (konsole, xterm) in this directory and make the installer executable
using the command: chmod u+x GuidosToolbox<version>_linux.run
c) Start the installer with the command: ./GuidosToolbox<version>_linux.run and follow
the instructions. The installer extracts the directory GuidosToolbox and creates 3 desktop
launchers: GuidosToolbox, GuidosToolbox_Data, OpenEV.
d) Start GuidosToolbox in one of the following 3 ways:
- double-click GuidosToolbox on your desktop, or
- double-click GuidosToolbox.desktop in the directory GuidosToolbox, or
- open a terminal in GuidosToolbox and enter the command: ./startGuidosToolbox.sh

Note:
 If GuidosToolbox fails to start install lib64xp6 (or libxp6, or libXp) via your software
package manager (Synaptic, aptitude, Yast, Yum, etc.).
 GuidosToolbox contains an old version of Gdal (1.6) required by OpenEV.
GuidosToolbox will automatically detect and use a more recent version of gdal if it is
found in the running system, or after it has been installed via your package
manager of your Linux distribution.

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  OpenEV requires 32bit compatible libraries on a 64bit system. They need to be
added manually, e.g., on PCLinuxOS use Synaptic to install ia32-libs, on Fedora:
yum install glibc.i686. OpenEV contains dynamic links, which are not supported on
FAT-formatted disks. You need either a NTFS or better a Linux file system (you can
easily convert an existing FAT-formatted USB-stick to NTFS without comprising the
integrity of the data, see here).
 QGIS will be available from the GuidosToolbox menu only if it is found in the
running system, or after it has been installed via your package manager of your
Linux distribution.
 If you change the path/location of the GuidosToolbox directory (for example when
running from a USB-flashdrive or external USB-disk) you can start the program in
the GuidosToolbox directory using the command ./startGuidosToolbox.sh.
Alternatively, you can re-create the desktop-launchers for the new location of this
directory with the command ./makeLaunchers.sh and then copy the xx.desktop
files to your desktop and click these to start the programs.
 GuidosToolbox has been successfully tested on the following 64bit Linux
distributions: Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, (K)Ubuntu, Mageia, Manjaro, Mint,
OpenSuSE, PCLinuxOS, RedHat.

GuidosToolbox is not supported on 32bit Linux systems.

For best compatibility please use the KDE desktop environment in PCLinuxOS.

MacOS:
a) Download the installer GuidosToolbox<version>_OSX.dmg to a local directory.
b) Delete any previous folder /Applications/GuidosToolbox.
c) Double-click or right-click on the installer GuidosToolbox<version>_OSX.dmg. In the
new popup window select: Open with → DiskImageMounter/Installer. Then drag/drop the
directory GuidosToolbox to the folder /Applications.
d) Open the directory /Applications/GuidosToolbox and double-click on mkShortcuts to
create desktop launchers to the default data directory GuidosToolbox/data and the
GuidosToolbox.
e) Double-click the desktop launcher GuidosToolbox to start the application and/or the
desktop launcher GuidosToolbox/data to access the default data directory.

Note:
 The Mac version requires a 64bit Intel-processor and macOS Yosemite or later.
Please install the latest version of XQuartz (http://www.xquartz.org) else
GuidosToolbox will fail to start.
 GuidosToolbox requires the GDAL libraries. Please install the latest version of
GDAL Complete (http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks) if not already
installed in the system. These libraries are also a pre-requisite when installing QGIS
(http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis) on macOS.
 You can copy the installed directory GuidosToolbox to a USB-device (any file
system) and then start GuidosToolbox with a double-click on GuidosToolbox.app
inside the GuidosToolbox directory.
 OpenEV is not available in the macOS-version of GuidosToolbox.

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Microsoft-Windows:
a) Download GuidosToolbox<version>_32/64windows.exe to a local directory. The
downloaded version must fit your CPU-architecture, else GuidosToolbox cannot be
installed.
b) Install GuidosToolbox to its default location C:\GuidosToolbox. The installation can
be performed without or with administrator rights. If writing to the C-drive is not
allowed the installer will setup a standalone directory ‘GTB<version>’ on the
desktop. The content and functionality of the standalone directory and the default are
identical.
c) Start GuidosToolbox with a double-click on the desktop launcher or from the start menu
(Start → Programs → GuidosToolbox → GuidosToolbox). In case of the standalone
version double-click the launcher startGuidosToolbox

Note:
 If you get the error of a missing MSVCR100.dll then download and install the
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for 64bit (http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=14632) or 32bit (http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=5555), resp.
 You can copy the installed directory GuidosToolbox to a USB-stick (FAT or NTFS)
and then start GuidosToolbox or any additional included software component with a
double-click on the respective startXX-launcher in the GuidosToolbox directory.
 GuidosToolbox has been successfully tested on the following 32/64bit Microsoft
Windows platforms: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,
Windows 8.1, Windows 10.

GuidosToolbox Quickstart:
Please use the default (Geo-)Tiff data format whenever possible!

GuidosToolbox uses a sub-directory data for reading/saving images (also directly

accessible from the desktop launcher) and a sample binary GeoTiff image input.tif is
located in this directory data. When starting GuidosToolbox you can either confirm using
the default GuidosToolbox sub-directory data or browse to your own data directory. Some
users have encountered problems when using network data directories so local data
directories are preferred.

Do a quick test run:

1) Start GuidosToolbox in the operating system specific way described above.
2) The IDLVM window will open. Simply click on it or on “click to continue”.
3) Click “OK” to use the default data directory GuidosToolbox/data.
4) Load the sample image: File → Read Image → GeoTiff, select input.tif, press Open.
5) Perform a MSPA-analysis: Image Analysis → Pattern → MSPA
6) Save the result: File → Save Image → GeoTiff
The MSPA-analysis of input.tif is saved to the default data directory data.

More information on the features of GuidosToolbox, the MSPA parameters and more is
available from the Help menu in the GuidosToolbox Manual and the MSPA Guide.

For bug reports, comments, and suggestions please contact: [email protected]