Installation

Stable release

With pip

CARS is available on Pypi and can be installed with pip.

It is recommended to use a virtual environment :

python -m venv cars_env
source cars_env/bin/activate
pip install cars

Optional edge detection integration can be installed with:

pip install "cars[edge-detection]"

When the edge detection plugin is installed, the default CARS pipeline automatically enables edge detection. If it is not installed, CARS runs without edge detection.

This is the preferred method to install CARS, but it is required to have a Linux system.

With Docker

Alternatively, you can download the Docker image from Docker Hub

docker pull cnes/cars

From sources

The sources for CARS can be downloaded from the Github repo.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/CNES/cars.git

Install CARS with the Makefile :

make install

Then activate the environment :

source venv/bin/activate