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ENVI SARscape 6.3 Platform Support

Platform  

Hardware

Operating System

Supported Versions


Windows


Intel/AMD 64-bit


Windows


 10 and 11


Linux


Intel/AMD 64-bit 


Linux 


 kernel 4.18.0 or higher, glibc 2.28 or higher
 

 

Additional Requirements and Recommendations:

Minimal system requirements:

  • ENVI 6.1
  • 8 GB of RAM
  • A CPU with at least 4 cores and SSE2 support
  • OpenCL 1.2-compatible GPU with 2 GB of memory and FP64 support
  • 2.5 GB of disk space

These requirements are provided as the bare minimum to launch the software. Please keep in mind that SAR processing can be extremely resource-demanding and, depending on the kind of datasets and operations performed through SARscape, a significantly better hardware configuration should be used. This also applies to the size of the hard-drives that will be used to store input data, results, and temporary/intermediate by products.

Ideal configuration:

  • ENVI 6.3
  • 16/32 GB of RAM
  • A CPU with 8+ cores and AVX2 support
  • OpenCL 1.2-compatible GPU with 8 GB of memory a
  • FP64 support Fast 512/1024 GB of SSD disk as working directory
  • 2.5 GB of disk space

If processing time is a critical requirement, please consider using the ENVI SARscape Cluster version instead. Contact us for more information about this product.

 

  • created July 31,2026 MM
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