GRASS GIS

GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)

• Home Page: http://grass.osgeo.org/ (mirror sites)
• Mailing List: http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php
• User map: http://grass.osgeo.org/community/index.php
• Development team: http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php
• Wiki: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/
• OSGeo Info Sheet: http://www.osgeo.org/grass
• GRASS Incubation Progress - Completed in 2008
• GRASS Provenance Review - Completed in 2008

GRASS is one of the founding projects of OSGeo and graduate OSGeo incubation.

Description

GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Software for performing spatial analysis. It consists of more than 350 modules for processing vector (2D/3D), raster and voxel data. Many interfaces to other programs in related domains like geostatistics, databases, mapserver and even other GIS software exist. It can serve as a Desktop GIS and as the backbone of a complete GIS infrastructure.

GRASS was originally developed in the beginning of the 1980s by the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USA-CERL) and was published as a public domain software. When the USA-CERL withdrew from the GRASS development, an international developer team took over this work. Since 1999 GRASS has been published as a free software under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

GRASS is successfully used in scientific applications, commercial settings and by public officials all over the world.