Contract. Workpackage Delivery Delivery Date 030776 WP1 D1.6 2008-04-24 CASCADOSS Development of a trans-national cacade training programme on Open Source GIS&RS Software for environmental applications SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION PRIORITY 1.2.4.2.2: IDENTIFICATION OF NEW METHODS OF PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING TRANSNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Documentation of open source GIS/RS software projects GRASS Start date of project: 2007-05-01 Duration: 24M
Documentation table Classification Type Software Description GRASS GIS/RS desktop application GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) Geographic Information System (GIS) used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modelling, and visualization of many types of data Short Description General Use / Goal / Aim Owner / History GRASS is a raster/vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system. GRASS contains over 350 programs and tools to render maps and images on monitor and paper; manipulate raster, vector, and sites data; process multi spectral image data; and create, manage, and store spatial data. GRASS uses both an intuitive windows interface as well as command line syntax for ease of operations. GRASS can interface with commercial printers, plotters, digitizers, and databases to develop new data as well as manage existing data. Import/export various raster and vector data; manipulating with raster, vector, and sites data; image processing; spatial analysis; processing multispectral image data; data generation through modelling; creating, managing, and storing spatial data; link to DBMS (PostgreSQL, mysql, SQLite, ODBC,...) U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Champaign, Illiis (USA-CERL, development 1982-1995), 1999 GRASS 5.0 is released under GNU GPL by the GRASS Development Team, 1995-today GRASS Development team lead by Markus Neteler at ITC-irst, Trento Italy http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html Variant Name Operating System (underline OS used for evaluation) n.a. GNU/Linux, MS Windows, MacOSX Version 1.0 2/5
Programming Language / Compiler Auxiliary Programmes National Version ANSI C, on GNU/Linux C-compiler - gcc PROJ4 - Projection Library, GDAL library - for raster data, C-compiler, GNU make, zlib compression library, flex lexical analyzer generator, parser generator (yacc, bison), libncurses4.x/5.x, X Window English, German, French, Czech, Polish,... many languages other than english http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php Language Version Current Version Update Frequency all projection by PROJ.4 library GRASS 6.2.3 - stable mir version released approx. twice a year http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/release_roadmap Type of License References Contact person Link(s) GNU GPL licence http://grass.itc.it/applications/index.php http://grass.itc.it/community/team.php http://grass.itc.it/ http://www.osgeo.org/grass Main Features Development Libraries Database Management Version 1.0 3/5
Desktop Applications Server Applications Modelling Spatial Analysis Decision-Support Software Other Installation Software Limits / Kwn Issues ne GNU/Linux packages - basic, MS Windows - advance, compiling on all OS - advanced Kwn problems: on bug tracking system http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?group_id=21 Bugs description & solution: http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?group_id=21, old bug tracking system http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass Manual / FAQ / Acronyms User manual for every version http://grass.itc.it/gdp/manuals.php FAQ - http://grass.gdf-hanver.de/wiki/faq Acronyms - t available Tutorial and or Sample Data "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach" book, tutorial and courses in many languages - http://grass.itc.it/gdp/tutorials.php, sample data for all main versions http://grass.itc.it/download/data6.php Mailing list(s) Current: http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser Archive: http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/ Version 1.0 4/5
WIKI http://grass.gdf-hanver.de/wiki/main_page FAQ link: http://grass.gdf-hanver.de/wiki/faq Links to community: http://grass.gdf-hanver.de/wiki/grass_community Community / users links http://grass.itc.it/community/index.php Version 1.0 5/5