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.