Installation

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Installation

In order to use GEDI, first go to http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/media/projects/GEDI to obtain the latest version. The website has two files available for download - a RAR file and a ZIP file. These contain the same exact files, so it is only necessary to download whichever one your computer's ZIP utility can handle. Once the file has finished downloading, double-click it to extract the contents. Included should be several folders and two files. The folders are config, doc, images, lib, logs, and samples; and the files are GEDI.jar and Run-GEDI.bat.

Generally speaking, Run-GEDI.bat should be sufficient for normal use; it will run GEDI with error output supressed and with some parameters which make sure GEDI doesn’t use too much memory. Just double-clicking the .jar file will still leave you unable to see the errors and debugging, and it will also leave you with no cap on GEDI’s memory usage. If you want to see the error and debugging output, you can run GEDI from the command line by navigating to the GEDI directory, then entering the following command: "java -Xmx128m -jar GEDI.jar". The only difference between this and the .bat file is that the .bat file doesn't run GEDI with java, but with javaw, meaning no output.

Returning to the folders, the config file contains properties files for GEDI, users, email, and ocr. There's also a ".cvsignore" file, which is there for the purpose of the developers.

The doc folder contains documentation, viewable by double-clicking on the runHelp.bat file in the GEDI_Help folder, or by selecting GEDI Help from the Help menu from the GEDI interface.

The images folder contains all the images used by GEDI when running.

The lib folder contains the external libraries used by GEDI when running.

The log folder contains the errors and debugging output generated when running in the default "silent" mode via the Run-GEDI.bat file.

Finally, the sample folder contains a sample image with accompanying xml file which you can open in GEDI to see some of GEDI’s features.