BESTGUI is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox (BEST). BEST or Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox is an ESA (European Space Agency) software tool designed to facilitate the use of ESA SAR data. It operates according to user-generated parameters files. For more detail you should refer to the BEST Home Page.

BESTGUI allows you to easily generate parameters files for BEST and launch the processing from the GUI.

The BEST software distribution already includes graphical front-ends. BESTGUI written in Python and GTK+.

BESTGUI aims to be an improved GUI front-end for UNIX platforms (it also run on Windows, see Supported platforms section in the BESTGUI User Manual), with a prettier look and feel and some useful additional features like:
1. enhanced menus and toolbars
2. persistent preferences
3. smart environment handling
4. colorized output log
5. progress bars for processing completion
6. the ability of stopping a running task from the GUI (stop button)
7. a dialog for the AoI specification
8. output preview for all (and not only) the tools that have an image as output (NEW in v. 0.99c)

BESTGUI aims to be a replacement of the Tcl/Tk HMI, the default GUI front-end included in the BEST software distribution. It inherits all the interesting features already present in the Tcl/Tk HMI and adds some useful ones:
1. a prettier look an feel
2. improved menus and toolbars
3. persistent preferences
4. smart environment handling
5. colorized output log
6. progress bars
7. stop button
8. output preview

In order to run BESTGUI you need to install the following software:
1. BEST v. 4.0 or higher
2. Python v. 2.4 or higher
3. PyGTK v. 2.6 or higher
4. libglade v. 2.4 or higher
5. win32all extensions (WindowsTM only)
6. pygtksourceview (optional)
7. the sphinx (recommended for the developers)
8. the GNU make (recommended for the developers)

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this graphing software.