GuidosToolbox version history and changelog
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Version 3.301 (Revision 1: April 2024)
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New features:
- enhanced bug reporting
- new FOS-FED
- added support for grayscale fragmentation

Fixed bugs:
- proximity: added test for original image

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Version 3.300 (Revision 0: December 2023)
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New features:
- updated IDL framework to 9.0
- added link to EUFO

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Version 3.203 (Revision 3: December 2023)
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Fixed bugs:
- fixed regression in change analysis

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Version 3.202 (Revision 2: October 2023)
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New features:
- added LM Anthropic colortable

Fixed bugs:
- fixed restoring original colortable
- Linux compatibility with glibc2.38

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Version 3.201 (Revision 1: September 2023)
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New features:
- added LM thematic colortables
- distinguish batch from regular colortables 

Fixed bugs:
- updated GraySpatCon to 1.2.1
- fixed loading colortables

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Version 3.200 (Revision 0: July 2023)
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New features:
- GraySpatCon, metric 52 Clustering
- updated IDL framework to 8.9

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Version 3.103 (Revision 3: April 2023)
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New features:
- GraySpatCon
- tifftag SW
- updated spatcon
- fixed gdal_edit command under macOS

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Version 3.102 (Revision 2: January 2023)
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New features:
- faster recoding
- updated spatcon
- updated documentation to be in sync with GWB

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Version 3.101 (Revision 1: December 2022)
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New features:
- setup recode table 
- Fragmentation: clustering
- cleanup of moving window procedures
- moved other spatcon modules to GWB
- added overview documentation
- updated IDL framework to 8.8.3

Fixed bugs:
- MSPA metadata when batch-processing
- limit MSPA-tiling to edge width 1
- pdf detection on Linux Gnome desktop
- improved default app-detection on Linux 

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Version 3.100 (Revision 0: July 2022)
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New features:
- Mac: Apple silicon support
- Linux: user vs system version check
- consolidated IDL framework across all OS

Fixed bugs:
- restore settings for MSPA image

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Version 3.006 (Revision 6: May 2022)
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New features:
- RP: auto-adjustung optimum Big 5
- information on open source distribution

Fixed bugs:
- max image size for mspa MS-Windows

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Version 3.005 (Revision 5: April 2022)
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New features:
- more compatible mspa linux version

Fixed bugs:
- FAD change analysis setup
- large number processing (unsupported)
- max image size for mspa windows version

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Version 3.004 (Revision 4: March 2022)
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New features:
- Fragmentation: FOS 5-class
- SPA5/6, MSPA: porosity and contiguous area
- multithreaded spatcon and recode
- Accounting: big3pink switch
- added proxy detection

Fixed bugs:
- SPA2: now called contiguous
- mspa version 2.3

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Version 3.003 (Revision 3: July 2021)
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New features:
- TIF_Compression tool
- simplified data directory setup
- RSS: restoration potential
- minimum MS-Windows 8.1 or above

Fixed bugs:
- RSS: big number problem
- fixed geotiff header detection
- username detection on Linux

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Version 3.002 (Revision 2: May 2021)
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Fixed bugs:
- memory detection on Ubuntu
- image initialization

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Version 3.001 (Revision 1: May 2021)
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New features:
- links to SEPAL and GWB
- updated documentation

Fixed bugs:
- batch: detection of max size linux/macos
- P23
- nodata in simple change and MCD
- statistics in simple change

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Version 3.000 (Revision 0: October 2020)
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New features:
- Restoration status and planner
- resistance map setup and analysis
- batch restoration status
- NW -> Component Connectors
- Save/Restore custom colortables
- conversion of unsupported geotiff files
- Recoding ROIs
- updated IDL framework to 8.8
- removed rotate of image

Fixed bugs:
- detection of projection/EPSG code
- kml-output of contagion
- show missing pixels in NW-analysis
- viewport output of travel time analysis
- color lookup table in zoom mode
- QGIS detection under macOS

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Version 2.901 (Revision 1: February 2020)
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New features:
- compatible with new proj-version 6.2
- simple change with loss, stable, gain
- reconnect can save LCP image
- improved output statistics for accounting
- Reconnect provides Degree of Connectivity
- Reconnect path is saved for MSPA analysis

Fixed bugs:
- fixed browser detection on Fedora
- Reconnect: connectivity increase

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Version 2.900 (Revision 0: September 2019)
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New features:
- enhanced statistics for Accounting
- enhanced statistics for Fragmentation
- removed 32bit OpenEV on Linux version
- removed 32bit MS-Windows components
- updated IDL framework to 8.7.2
- updated URLs for new websites
- use IDL-internal zip/unzip
- links to OpenForis and TreeAtlas

Fixed bugs:
- crash upon undefined values in viewport
- fixed missing 255 entry in Recode

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Version 2.800 (Revision 0: December 2018)
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New features:
- new End User License Agreement (EULA)
- updated IDL framework to 8.7.1
- discontinued support for MS-Windows 32-bit 

Fixed bugs:
- missing geoheader in batch-components 

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Version 2.702 (Revision 2: August 2018)
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New features:
- Parcellation: revised & included FGobjects
- FAD/FOS: calculate per patch average
- FAD multiscale: average over 5 scales 
- FAD change stats lists observation scale
- increased precision for FOS, FAD, P2, P22
- HMC frag index based on circular ref. area
- HMC frag index will provide index only
- Eucl. Distance with histogram and HMC
- batch-dist output with histogram & csv
- added GTB-watermark for Dist, Acc, SPA, 
  PARC, LM, P2, P22
- added heatmap to Landscape Mosaic
- Landscape Mosaic change analysis
- synced output from GTB and GWB
- MS-Windows: running gdal on network drives
- add support for QGIS3
- Recode: new option to set all values

Fixed bugs:
- batch-recode 
- HMC frag is now the same on different OS 
- make new directory did not work correctly
- read out missing values in MCD
- rescale image in change detection
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Version 2.701 (Revision 1: April 2018)
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New features:
- Accounting(formerly: labelFGobjects): 
  show+stats on 3 largest objects; 
  option to save images showing ID/area
  option to save/restore Accounting settings
  provide short summary csv output
- Image Info: list number of classes
- Batch processing: only in folders not
  having any sub-folders; 
  each batch option has its own batch-folder
- Contortion: start with minsize=1000
- save HMC will save barplots too
- save Eucldist will save barplot too

Fixed bugs:
- Contortion for large object areas
- crash when saving Reconnect image
- crash on zoom after batch processing
- ConeforInputs for Objects of value 2 only

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Version 2.700 (Revision 0: March 2018)
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New features:
- labelFGobjects: 6 area classes + statistics
- SPA6: 6 MSPA classes incl. core-openings
- SPA3: transition is now called margin
- do not show barplot in batch mode
- updated IDL framework to 8.7
- list MCD classes below viewport
- MS-Windows: choose installation folder
- Help -> Online -> Productsheets

Fixed bugs:
- SPAx at image boundary & missing

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Version 2.609 (Revision 09: February 2018)
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New features:
- SPA3/5: 3/5 MSPA classes incl.core-openings 
- MSPA statistics on Core/Border openings
- fine-tuned Parcellation
- test for csv-file in use

Fixed bugs:
- fixed bug in opening statistics
- saving statistics when in zoom mode
- Parcellation documentation
- fixed gdalwarp on Linux

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Version 2.608 (Revision 08: January 2018)
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New features:
- MSPA: Openings, FG_area, iFG_area
- MSPA statistics for closed boundaries only
- FOS: fixed-scale FAD, Batch and Change
- watermark for FOS and FAD images
- Bug reporting tool
- mouse pointer theme switcher
- MCD gain/loss statistics upon saving
- batch processing with new progress bar
- removed obsolete component connectors
- removed comparing png-images

Fixed bugs:
- calculation of available RAM on Linux
- added libcrypt for OpenEV on Fedora
- added mupdf check for XFCE on Linux
- changing MSPA-EEW
- readout LM classes in viewport
- crash in Recode routine

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Version 2.607 (Revision 07: November 2017)
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New features:
- Parcellation (object analysis)
- MSPA statistics: detect/quantify openings
- Conversion to Integer and Long Integer

Fixed bugs:
- inconsistency in MSPA batch statistics
- Recoding of single value image 
- invalid location of temporary folder
- display of custom color assignment

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Version 2.606 (Revision 06: September 2017)
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Fixed bugs:
- batch NW importance
- reset of zoom option

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Version 2.605 (Revision 05: September 2017)
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New features:
- added FAD summary to statistics output
- added area/patch statistics to FAD
- added FAD change analysis 
- Linux version now requires zip and unzip
- Change analysis moved to the File section

Fixed bugs:
- writing FAD directory next to input file
- added info on empty spaces in directories

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Version 2.604 (Revision 04: August 2017)
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New features:
- test/fix EPSG header for Corine data
- added FAD legend to kml output
- Fragmentation -> MultiScale -> Dominance
- added Dominance batch processing
- Batch logs can be read during execution

Fixed bugs:
- fixed resetting default settings
- fixed reloading external MSPA-images
- fixed color-assignement in MSPA cmdline

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Version 2.603 (Revision 03: July 2017)
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New features:
- MS-Windows: installation to custom directory

Fixed bugs:
- fixed regression in MSPA-tiling setup
- fixed pixel readout in large images 

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Version 2.602 (Revision 02: June 2017)
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New features:
- FAD: added non-fragmenting BG input option
- added FAD batch processing

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Version 2.601 (Revision 01: June 2017)
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Fixed bugs:
- FAD: fixed rounding error and display entries
- fixed regression in Linux and OSX installers

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Version 2.600 (Revision 00: June 2017)
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Changes and new features: 
- moving window analysis: added range and FG-masking
- Multi-scale fragmentation analysis FAD
- FG-objects fragmentation index 
- removed meshsize
- added reference for GTB-paper
- added check for multiple GTB instances 
- updated IDL framework to 8.6 

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Version 2.505 (Revision 05: April 2017)
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Fixed bugs:
- hypsometric curve calculation on larger images
- Conefor Inputs setup

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Version 2.504 (Revision 04: January 2017)
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Fixed bugs:
- empty startup folder
- fixed MacOS startup
- removed wavelet toolkit

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Version 2.503 (Revision 03: January 2017)
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Changes and new features: 
- corrected image orientation for Conefor Inputs 
- Image Analysis submenu Shape now called Objects
- updated documentation and contact email

Fixed bugs:
- fixed MSPA-tiling for empty subtiles
- fixed GTB MacOS update to work with latest Xquartz

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Version 2.502 (Revision 02: October 2016)
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Changes and new features: 
- added workshop material update check 
- empty spaces in file name are no longer allowed 
- apply Contortion only to objects with a core area
- removed contortion/area or perimeter
- removed Conefor software to avoid confusion with
  the standalone distribution. 

Fixed bugs:
- fixed MSPA-tiling for empty spaces in input file name
- remove minimum size restrictions on batch contagion

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Version 2.501 (Revision 01: July 2016)
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Changes and new features: 
- GoogleEarth overlay: 
  - significantly faster and feasible for any image size
  - MSPA GoogleEarth overlay: legend can be blended out 
    and new option for fully transparent MSPA background
- Cost:
  - Reconnect: shortest path between user-selectable
    components (stepping stone detection tool).
- Euclidean Distance: 
  - enforce 8-connectivity for FG 
- Influence Zone/Proximity: 
  - enforce 8-connectivity for FG 
  - added information on CAG
  - changes in Proximity settings will be 
    applied only after ticking the 'Divide' checkbox
  - upon saving an additional viewport image is saved
  - additonal graphics on CAG+frequency/connector length
  - provide summary proximity statistics in csv format
- added references on spatcon, recode
- Batch processing: Reorganised to match Image Analysis menu
  - new options: NW-Components, Node/Link Importance,
    MSPA Conefor Inputs
- removed Entropy_mw
- Fragmentation index calculations are saved as simple text files
- inform about resulting file locations upon saving
- added information on MSPA statistics (section 3.2 in the manaual)

Fixed bugs:
- Program crash when mouse pointer at top/left in the viewport
- NW Components when MSPA-Core range was active
- fixed MSPA-settings upon restoring a MSPA image
- MCD: inprecise cutout of common area  
- Distance/HMC: fixed display of HMC
- Batch/HMC: fixed inconsistency to single HMC calculation
- Batch/Distance: fixed wrong output of euclidean distance


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Version 2.500 (Revision 00: March 2016)
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Changes and new features: 
- new analysis menu: Distance -> Segmentation 
- added area listing in Influence Zones
- added Proximity measure
- added Equivalent Connected Area to connectivity analysis
- added post-startup tests for GTB minimum requirements
- added test to run correct GTB system architecture version
- updated IDL framework to 8.5.1
- MS-Windows:
  - installer now shows full progress bar in standalone installations
  - updated GDAL to 1.11.3 
  - added bigTiff support
  - improved speed of MSPAtiling 
- OSX:
  - improved image quality of GoogleEarth overlays

Fixed bugs:
- reading of geotiff images when header files are present
- MSPA-tiling displaying wrong colors in some cases
- MSPA-tiling regression on OSX
- MSPA-tiling on Windows for large images
- MSPA Geoheader on MSPA-Tiling

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Version 2.402 (Revision 02: February 2016)
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- fixed MSPA geoheader tag when saving with statistics
- revision update and workshop installation now work in non-default installations
- adding option in MS-Windows installer to install into non-default locations
- added check on MS-Windows to run the correct architecture version

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Version 2.401 (Revision 01: January 2016)
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- fixed setup of Component Connectors
- added News browser to the Help menu
- renamed menu Connectivity to Network

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Version 2.400 (Revision 00: November 2015)
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Changes and new features: 
- added: Cost Analysis: Cost Map; Least Cost Path/Range;
  Cost Zones, and preprocessing tool to setup marker map 
- added elasticity in Morphological Change analysis 
- added option to directly compare two images 
- added option to save in png-format
- added custom kernel size in moving window analysis
- added startup info on program version and revision release
- added section on known issues and limitations in the manual
- added preprocessing option to reproject to EPSG 4326
- Image Info now lists projection name and EPSG code for GeoTiff
- added link to related other JRC software (IMPACT, Nestedness)
- updated workshop material with info and examples for new features
- updated IDL framework to 8.5
- OS X: included OpenMP support for recode, spatcon, ggeo, mspa
- slim down the software package: 
  moved the publications folder into workshop material
  removed Fragmentation -> Complexity
  removed read/save IDL
  removed static GDAL frameworks from OS X version

Fixed bugs:
- component connectors on images with high percentage of foreground
- 'save as kml': constrained to strictly require EPSG code 4326
- 'save as kml': did not work for some constellations in 
  Windows7/Vista (64 bit) due to a conflict with other GIS 
  applications. A patch can now be applied to resolve this issue.
- loading new image when in zoom mode
- deactivate Image Info during/after Batch processing
- deactivate Image Info during change analysis
- enforce mouse-driven file-selection for MCD analysis

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Version 2.301 (Revision 01: August 2015)
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- automatic check on startup for updated version/revision release


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Version 2.3 (April 2015)
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Changes and new features: 
- removed batch option for Complexity
- added batch option for Euclidean distance
- save distance histogram output
- added unchanged areas in morphological change detection display
- added kernel/image dimension compatibility check
- added test for node/link presence in connectivity calculations
- updated IDL framework to 8.4.1
- added option to install GuidosToolbox Workshop material
- added option for incremental revision updates
- added option to download new program version

Fixed bugs:
- fixed Entropy_mw crash
- fixed crash when processing small images
- fixed crash upon exiting some fragmentation settings
- fixed crash when zooming in MCD
- fixed crash when reading images for change analysis
- fixed crash in batch frag-hypsometry on X-server systems
- fixed wrong colortable on OS X
- fixed gdal startup on OS X


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Version 2.2 (March 2015)
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Changes and new features: 
- maximum supported image dimension for moving window analysis now unlimited
- QGIS/Grass/Saga and MapTiler are no longer included in GuidosToolbox. QGIS will be 
  available from within GuidosToolbox if QGIS is found in the default location
- MSPA geotiff-images generated with version 2.2 are now recognised as 
  MSPA images upon loading into GuidosToolbox 
- added fragmentation/optional menu:
   - slow performing but precise entropy calculation via moving window
   - meshsize
   - hypsometric curve
- batch-recoding option
- updated IDL framework to 8.4.0

Fixed bugs:
- fixed MSPA processing on Fedora Linux
- fixed crash for MSPA-tiling on OS X
- fixed MSPA-tiling displaying wrong colors in some cases
- fixed crash when gdal is installed on OS X
- fixed initialisation of Conefor commandline
- fixed installer to test for running process
- fixed image border effects on entropy/contagion/distance calculation

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Version 2.1 (July 2014)
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General new features: 
- generic size dependent object labelling 
- influence zones for foreground/core areas of given size
  and optional user-specified buffer zones
- contagion indices: Shannon edge-type evenness and SumD 
- fragmentation = f(complexity)
- updated to QGIS 2.4
- contortion threshold changes are applied automatically

Fixed bugs:
- fixed missing file when doing GE-overlays in MS-Windows
- fixed P23 input file assignment
- fixed morph toolbox startup failure
- fixed centroid distance startup failure
- fixed threshold value assignment
- fixed saving of MSPA statistics 
- fixed autostretch setting upon undo operation
- fixed initial zoomfactor setting
- fixed readout of fragmentation value when grouping is enabled

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Version 2.0 (April 2014)
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General new features: 
- renamed to GuidosToolbox
- image output constrained to (geo)-tif or png
- show changelog from the Help-menu
- GuidosToolbox ported to 64-bit operating systems 
- MSPA:
  - 32/64bit, 
  - optimised to use less memory and be faster
  - bigtiff support 
  - multithread support
  - new MSPA-standalone executable with progress bar
- editable MSPA parameter 2: EEW
- Conefor is now included in GuidosToolbox
- Conefor Inputs maximum size increased from 2000^2 to 5000^2 
- Contortion of image objects, absolute and relative
- normalised Fragmentation indices, based on Entropy and Contagion
- Change analysis: simple difference and morphological
- Grouping for MSPA/Fragmentation/Contortion/Distance: 
     small/medium/large with editable thresholds
- Recoding of image classes, including Save/Restore feature
- Image Info button in main window
- logfile and progress bar added to Batch-processing 
- Pf/Pff are now P2/P22 and displayed in byte
- P23: foreground contrast or hard/soft edges
- Landscape Mosaic (LM)
- discontinue GuidosToolbox DVD-version

OS-specific new features:
MS-Windows:
- updated MS-Windows installer to work with newer Win-OS 
- MS-Windows installer can be run with or without administrator rights
- added GIS-software: MapTiler, Saga, GRASS, Nestedness
- upgraded to QGIS 2.2 and Gdal 1.10.1
Linux:
- added support for Konsole terminal
- enhanced and fixed detection of file-browser, web-browser, terminal
- added support for GRASS
Mac:
- upgraded to gdal 1.10.1
- added support for GRASS
- improved installer

Fixed bugs:
- fixed KML-export on Windows 7/8
- improved speed of kml-export
- proper detection of default pdf-application
- proper detection of default web-browser
- fixed output-format for Conefor input file-set
- fixed distance calculation when nodata is present
- distance image shows actual distance instead of color class values
- fixed crash when zooming at image boundary
- fixed crash when quitting MSPA Input group window
- fixed crash when selecting single value in MSPA Input group window
- fixed crash on OS X for kml-export when gdal is installed
- fixed file output of Pf/Pff results
- fixed image info information for non-byte datasets
- fixed object perimeter detection
- fixed generic image output of non-byte images


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Version 1.4 (March 2012)
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New features:
- Conefor Inputs: generate Conefor input file-sets from generic images 
- Network Analysis: Components, Node/Link importance, 
  Component connectors, and setup of Conefor input file-set based on MSPA
  detected nodes/links

Fixed bugs:
- some GUI-bug fixes


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Version 1.3 (February 2010)
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New features:
- MSPA-Tiling: images larger than the OS-specific maximum size
  (Linux: 10000^2, Mac: 9000^2, MS-Windows: 7000^2) can now be
  processed via an automatic buffered tiling procedure.
- MSPA-Input: different tools to setup a MSPA-compliant input
  image from any kind of digital data, including display of 
  generic image information.
- MSPA-Batch-Processing: now provides its own interface for 
  setting the MSPA parameters and allowing for statistical output.
- Network Analysis: MSPA-output is converted into a map of 
  nodes and links for further analysis using graph-theory concepts
  based on Conefor Sensinode (CS, Saura et al.)
  * display of individual components,
  * connectivity importance of individual nodes and links, 
  * location and evaluation of new links between existing components,
  * setting up input files for further detailed analysis in CS.
- Image display: 
  * images are now displayed in top-down order to be compliant with 
    other image processing software.
  * Flip Vertical of image display has replaced the previous 
    rotate/transpose. GeoTiff images can not be flipped vertically.
- updated IDL virtual machine

Fixed bugs:
- morphological distance of background at image boundary
- added OS-specific maximum file size check
- display of full image dimension in Guidos viewer
- some undo/redo options
- some GUI-bug fixes


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Version 1.2 (December 2008)
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New features:
- No admin rights required for installation
- Discontinue separation of "Guidos only" and "Guidos+IDLVM".
  Instead package everything in one directory as "Guidos".
- Guidos now runs from removable media
- Linux version:
  - includes FWTools 2.0.6 in a portable directory
- Mac version: 
  - MSPA is now available on Mac
  - includes GDAL & QGIS in a portable directory
  - discontinue Mac PPC; provide only Mac Intel OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Windows version: 
  - installs to C:\ (no admin rights required), 
  - includes QGIS & FWTools 2.2.6 in a portable directory
- Guidos Live-CD: 
  - improved hardware compatibility
  - GIS-software (OpenEV, GDAL, QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)
  - OpenOffice (view/edit doc-, xls-, ppt-documents)
- MSPA param2 "size" is now called "EdgeWidth". EdgeWidth directly specifies
  the resulting MSPA boundary width in pixels in [1,..,15,20,30,40,50,100].
- Px/Pxx:
  - extended to the background area
  - assign missing values to -0.01
- Title bar of a distance map now includes the average distance to 
  fg/bg intersection, called adf and adb. 
- New function: check for Guidos program update
- Quickstart.txt, changelog.txt, and MSPA-publications included

Fixed bugs:
- change MSPA size-param then save geotif shows original image
- floating-point data is now saved correctly
- when loading new image transrot is not reset to 0
- when changing MSPA2-param to the same size the original is loaded
- reading a new file does not set MSPA-stats to zero
- position/locator offset fixed
- some GUI-bug fixes


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Version 1.1 (September 2008)
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initial public release of Guidos.


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Version 1.0 (October 2007)
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initial public release as a demonstrator in a web-based interface at:
http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/