Opticks is a remote sensing application that supports imagery, video (motion imagery), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, and other types of remote sensing data.

Opticks was initially developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and other organizations for the United States Intelligence Community.

Developers can extend Opticks functionality using its plug-in architecture and public application programming interface (API).

The vanilla software can be used to read and write imagery in several formats and for some basic data analysis as described in the Opticks Feature Tour.

The Opticks community provides installation packages for Microsoft Windows, Solaris 10 SPARC, and some distributions of Linux.

The Opticks community provides and supports a public SDK which includes a documented API as well as several extension tutorials.