Changelog

EOTSV 2.2 (2025-09-25)

• multi-sensor time series can be saved as JSON. loading from the timeseries from a JSON file is rapid, as it avoids source files access

• faster and asynchronous loading of time series sources issue #27

• faster and asynchronous loading of time series raster images issue #31

• faster and asynchronous loading of temporal profiles

• the initial raster stretch is taken from the first sensor raster

• added scripts/load_eotsv_profiles.py to load temporal profiles without having the QGIS API installed

• some context menus got shorter names and better tooltips

• preview for python-code band index expressions

• (experimental) user functions allow creating additional profiles that are derived from temporal profiles

• antialias for spectral and temporal profile plots

• fixed a bug that could occur when selecting vector features in a map

• map layers that are not used in any legend (zombie layers) are now removed from the EOTSV project to not appear in layer selection widgets

• map canvas context menu option ‘Copy > All Maps’ now copies maps without other widget boundaries to the clipboard

• missing / inaccessible sources are highlighted in the time series view

• fixed minor issues related to the QGIS processing framework, e.g., with QGIS 3.44

EOTSV 2.1 (2025-06-05)

• added a map region window to the temporal profile plot

• revised quick labeling tools

• revised documentation, added more animated GIFs

• temporal profile plot: fixed band matching, added quick label shortcuts

EOTSV 2.0 (2025-04-19)

• revised map visualization

• faster image loading by using the QGIS task manager and parallel background threads

• revised of Temporal Profile (TP) Tool.

  • TPs now consist of full-spectrum time series, loaded in parallel background threads

  • TPs are stored in vector layer fields

  • TPs can be loaded for vector layer points using a QGIS processing algorithm

  • the TP tool visualizes TPs from different vector layers or layer fields

  • TP tool has shortcuts to visualize spectral indices from https://github.com/awesome-spectral-indices/awesome-spectral-indices

• revised of EO Time Series Viewer Settings

  • settings are now stored in the QGIS settings dialog

  • allows defining the number of parallel reading threads

  • it allows defining shortcuts to visualize spectral indices in the Temporal Profile tool

• revised of Quick Labeling

  • added customized quick label values that allow defining new values using a QGIS expression

  • the quick label editor widget allows defining a classification scheme

  • added quick-labeling shortcuts to the TP tool context menu

• FORCE product import allows filtering data by start and end date

EOTSV 1.20 (2024-12-08)

• added FORCE Product Import

• restore / reload EOTSV workbench from QGIS Project, e.g., time series sources, map layer styles (rendering plus symbology), map extent, crs and current date

• optimized map rendering

• background tasks can be canceled in the task manager.

• fixed a fatal crash related to a missing QgsRasterDataProvider python ref

EOTSV 1.19 (2024-09-29)

• API fixes to run with QGIS 3.34–3.38

• updates Spectral Library Module

• enabled tooltips in MapCanvas context menu

• attribute table: next / previous feature buttons consider order as shown in the table

• fixed VRT building

• fixed context menu connection in QGIS environments with other languages than English

• maps can flash selected features

• spectral profiles are now extracted with context information

EOTSV 1.18 (2023-04-07)

Stability Update

• removed several issues related to updates in QGIS and GDAL

• updated QPS library, which introduces several updates to the SpectralLibrary handling

EOTSV 1.17 (2021-03-10)

• quick raster band selection and GDAL Metadata panel now appear in the QGIS layer properties dialog

• fixed smaller issues related to plugin loading and unloading

• added bulk loading from time series definition files

• fixes to run with QGIS 3.18+

• move to the next / previous observation with arrow right/left

• move to the next / previous observation window with CTRL + arrow right/left or A/D

• move to the last / first observation with End/Pos1 or ALT + A/D

• select the next / previous vector feature with arrow downs/up or S/W

• added option for exclusive visibility of map views

• show the next / previous map view with PageDown/PageUp or ALT + S/W

• set map center from/to QGIS with F1/ALT+F1

• set map extent from/to QGIS with F2/ALT+F2

• modified observation slider, slider shows a range of visible dates

EOTSV 1.16 (2021-02-02)

• fixed smaller issues

• the forward / backward button to move in time now shifts by the number of opened observation dates/maps

• next / previous feature button offers to (i) move to the next feature and (ii) update the map dates according to the availability of raster sources for the new map extent

• faster updates of observation data visibility

EOTSV 1.15 (2020-11-23)

• source files can be opened by drag and drop to the time series tree view

• maps can be organized in multiple rows per map view (rows x columns)

• map descriptions can be defined with QgsExpressions, e.g. ‘@map_date’ to show the date

• quick labels: CTRL + right mouse button opens a map menu even when the feature-modified map tool is activated

• source visibility update can be run on the entire time series or (new and faster) for the next time steps only

• added the “follow current date” option to the time series table to keep focus on the map window date range

• added wildcard and regular expression filter to the time series table

• smaller bug fixes and improvements

EOTSV 1.14 (2020-11-06)

• this version focuses on stability updates and improvements of the “quick label” system

• the map canvas menu is now available with a standard map tool (like zoom tool)

• introduces label groups to apply quick labeling shortcuts on different sets of vector fields

• attribute table allows selecting added features automatically

• optimized package imports

• improved SpectralLibrary tool

• fixed bugs

EOTSV 1.13 (2020-07-23)

• time series and map settings can be stored to and reloaded from QGIS Projects

• refactored layer styling and default raster stretching

• fixed CRS translation bug and other smaller bugs

• quick labels can be used to write date / datetime data into vector fields of type QDate or QDateTime

• refactored context menus, e.g., in map view layer tree view, fixed #106

EOTSV 1.12 (2020-04-09)

• TimeSeries tree view allows changing the visibility of single source images, e.g., to hide clouded observations

• several updates to the Spectral Library Widget, e.g., import / export of profiles from ASD, ARTMO, EcoSYS or SPECCHIO

• EOTSV allows opening images from sources with subdatasets, e.g., from Sentinel-2 or HDF images.

EOTSV 1.11 (2020-01-23)

• revised unit tests for CI pipelines

• fixed smaller issues in SensorModel

• fixed #103: EOTSV crashed on Linux, caused by an attempt to store an unpickable QgsTextFormat to QSettings

EOTSV 1.10 (2019-11-25)

• improved matching of source images to sensors: matching can be specified in the settings dialog. Sensor matching based on ground sampling distance + number of bands + data type and optionally wavelength and/or sensor name

• the settings dialog shows known sensor / product specification and allows modifying their default “sensor name”

• fixed copying of layer styles to maps of the same sensor and map view type

• improved speed of mapping and layer buffering

• failed image sources are logged in the EO Time Series Viewer log panel

• Spectral Library Viewer better handles large collections of spectral profiles

EOTSV 1.9 (2019-10-02)

• includes several smaller updates

• fixed error ‘shortcutVisibleInContextMenu’ error that occurred with Qt < 5.10

• enhanced wavelength extraction from GDAL metadata: wavelength can be specified per band

EOTSV 1.8 (2019-09-19)

• updated spectral library module

• fixed #104: error in case of a wrong spatial extent

• by default, CRS is properly shown in map view settings

• user-defined CRS visible

EOTSV 1.7 (2019-08-06)

• increased contrast for default map view text

• improved reading of wavelength information, e.g., from Pleiades, Sentinel-2 and RapidEye data

• temporal profile plot: data gaps can be shown by breaks in the profile line, data source information is correctly shown for selected points only

• current extent can be copied via MapCanvas context menu

• fixed #102: move maps to the date of interest selected in a temporal profile plot

EOTSV 1.6 (2019-07-16)

• re-design of map visualization: faster and more compact, the number of maps is fixed to n dates x m map views

• date, sensor or map view information can be plotted within each map and become available in screenshots

• releases map layers that are not required any more

• slider + buttons to navigate over time series

• fixed preview in the crosshair dialog

EOTSV 1.5 (2019-07-07)

• closing the EO Time Series Viewer instance will release all of its resources

• added “Lock Map Panel” to avoid unwanted resizing of the central widget

• fixed missing updates of the time series tree view when adding / removing source images

• the map canvas context menu lists layers with a spatial extent intersecting the cursor position only

• fixes feature selection error

• added quick label source image to label the path of the raster layer

EOTSV 1.4 (2019-07-02)

• adding vector layers with sub-layers will add all sub-layers

• map canvas context menu “Focus on Spatial Extent” will hide maps without time series data for the current spatial extent

• labeling dock allows iterating over vector features. the spatial map extent will be centered to each feature (#26)

• added several convenience functions to the TimeSeriesViewer object

• fixed a bug that did not allow creating new polygon features

• temporal profile visualization: fixed icons to preview selected plot style, coordinate described by “ ”, e.g. “42 Deforested” fixed plot style preview

• updated SpectralLibraryViewer

• fixed a spelling error in the stacked band input dialog

• MapViews can add raster layers that have been opened in QGIS, e.g., XYZ Tile with OpenStreetMap data

EOTSV 1.3 (2019-06-12)

• fixed #99: opening example closes QGIS on linux

• fixed #96 and #99: docutils not installed error when showing rst/md content

• fixed #97: TSV does not start (Linux)

EOTSV 1.2 (2019-05-31)

• added SaveAllMapsDialog and menu option to export all maps as image files.

• fixed #91: select Temporal Profile / Spectral Profile button activates the required map tools.

• fixed #92: map canvas context menu “copy to clipboard” options.

EOTSV 1.1 (2019-05-24)

• dates and data sources of the TimeSeries are now shown in a TreeView instead of TableView

• observation dates of current visible map canvases are highlighted in the time series tree view

• sensor raster layer properties can be opened from MapView layer tree #87. Stats will be related to the center mapcanvas.

• fixed: StackedInputDialog, MapCanvas context menu, “Save Changes?” labeling dialog (#85),

• remove temporal profile (#86), draw new feature error (#84), Crosshair button status (#90) and more …

EOTSV 1.0 (2019-05-15)

• labeling tools to modify vector layers.

• quick labeling for time-labels information

• synchronization with QGIS Map canvas center

• SpectralLibrary can import SpectralProfiles from a raster image based on vector positions

• simplified MapView control dock, each MapView has its own layer tree.

• improved MapTool organization

• removed PyQtGraph from a list of required external python packages

• renamed the plugin folder from “timeseriesviewerplugin” to “EOTimeSeriesViewer”.

• improved SpectraLibrary tool

• CI tests with bitbucket pipelines

• several bug fixes

EOTSV 0.8 (2019-03-01)

• added labeling panel

• scheduled map canvas refreshes

• multiple images per observationdata & sensor

• fixed several bugs

• fixed bugs which were caused by CRS changes

• fixed macOS QGIS (3.4.1.) crashes caused by QgsMapCanvas constructor

• uses QgsTaskManager for background loading

• own QgsMapLayerStore to not mix-up with (main) QGIS layers

• fixed bugs related to changes in QGIS API

EOTSV 0.7 (2018-06-20)

• Visualization of images with stacked temporal information (each band = one observation date)

• some bugfixes

• Speclib I/O as CSV or ENVI-Spectral Library + CSV table for attributes

• temporary VRTs are now created in-memory (gdal VSI mechanism) instead of a disk temp path

• Spectral Library: profile coordinate now in the center of the map pixel (issue #66)

• Save map canvas to clipboard

• The width of plot lines is now scale-independent (issue #64, QPen.setCosmetic(True))

• adding fields to a spectral library (issue #61)

EOTSV 0.6 (2018-06-04)

SpectralLibrary Module

• now based on in-memory QgsVectorLayer

• Locations and values of spectral profile can be exported as vector data set

• Locations of spectral profiles can be rendered on MapCanvases

Temporal Profile Module

• now based on in-memory QgsVectorLayer

• Locations of temporal profiles can be exported as a vector data set

• Band values of temporal profiles can be exported as CSV file

• Locations of temporal profiles can be rendered on MapCanvases

EOTSV 0.5 (2018-04-17)

• ported to QGIS 3, Qt5 and Python 3.6

• improvements in temporal profile visualization

• removed several bug

• visibility of vector and raster layers can be toggled per map view

• improved interaction between QGIS and EOTSV (Buttons to import/export a spatial extent of map canvas or center)

• improved definition of individual 2D / 3D charts per sensor and pixel-location

• added based OpenGL-based 3D plot features (axis, grids, labels)

• changed the name to “EO Time Series Viewer” (EOTSV)

• merged updates to temporal profile visualization, e.g., save temporal profiles, compare 2D profiles between different locations, experimental 3D visualization

EOTSV 0.3 (2018-01-31)

• added file filters for OpenFileDialog

EOTSV 0.2 (2018-01-19)

• initialized Sphinx-based documentation

• improved map visualization + map settings

EOTSV 0.2 (2017-05-21)

• many changes, done in development branch “develop”,

• e.g.: QGIS MapCanvases for interactive maps, temporal profiles, …

EOTSV 0.1 (2017-02-14)

• first setup for test users in the recent development branch