# About OVT

Orbit Visualization Tool (2nd generation), Copyright © OVT Team, 2000-2009. Version 2.3, October 2009.
This software is provided free of charge to registered users. No part of this software can be included in any commercial package without written consent from the OVT team.

When using OVT for publications or presentations please make a reference to K. Stasiewicz, M. Khotyaintsev and Y. Khotyaintsev, Orbit Visualization Tool (http://ovt.irfu.se).

OVT-team: http://ovt.irfu.se
K.Stasiewicz (http://cluster.irfu.se/ks/), M. Khotyaintsev (ko@irfu.se), Y. Khotyaintsev (yuri@irfu.se)

MacOS-X port:
Yu. V. Khotyaintsev (yuri@irfu.se)

Acknowledgments:
Development of this program was supported by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF-U), the ESA/ESTEC Cluster project, and the Svenska Institutet (SI). The program uses some algorithms developed by T.S. Kelso, N. Tsyganenko, D. Weimer and J.-H. Shue.

Contributing:
Any improvement or further development of this software is welcome. Please contact the OVT team.
Contributors to the current version:
K. Stasiewicz, M. Khotyaintsev, Yu. Khotyaintsev, G. Juchnikowski, O. Konovalenko, O. Noga, M. Khodosko, T. Leonova, B. Popielawska, S. Redko.

Reporting bugs:
Bugs should be reported by email to: ovt-team@nest.irfu.se
Please include version number of JDK, VTK and OVT together with detailed description of the bug. Terminal output is helpful also.
Note: Please check the BUGS page (http://ovt.irfu.se/docs/BUGS.html) before submitting.

Disclaimer:
The OVT team accepts no responsibility for damages resulting from the use of this software and makes no warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided as it is, and its users assume all risks when using it.

OVT distribution may contain Visualization Toolkit (VTK) Copyright (c) 1993-2001 Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen All rights reserved. OVT distribution may contain Java(tm) 2 Runtime Environment licensed from Sun Microsystems, Inc.