1. Contract no. 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

2. Documentation table
GRASS
Classification Type GIS/RS desktop application
Software Description 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 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.
General Use / Goal / Aim 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, ...)
Owner / History U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Champaign, Illinois (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 n.a.
Operating System (underline OS used for GNU/Linux, MS Windows, MacOSX
evaluation)
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Programming Language / Compiler ANSI C, on GNU/Linux C-compiler - gcc
Auxiliary Programmes 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
National Version English, German, French, Czech, Polish, ... many languages other than english
http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php
Language Version all projection by PROJ.4 library
Current Version GRASS 6.2.3 - stable
Update Frequency minor version released approx. twice a year
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Release_Roadmap
Type of License GNU GPL licence
References http://grass.itc.it/applications/index.php
Contact person http://grass.itc.it/community/team.php
Link(s) http://grass.itc.it/
http://www.osgeo.org/grass
Main Features
Development Libraries no
Database Management no
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Desktop Applications yes
Server Applications no
Modelling yes
Spatial Analysis yes
Decision-Support Software yes
Other none
Installation GNU/Linux packages - basic, MS Windows - advance, compiling on all OS - advanced
Software Limits / Known Issues Known 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-hannover.de/wiki/Faq
Acronyms - not 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

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WIKI http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Main_Page
FAQ link: http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Faq
Links to community: http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Community
Community / users links http://grass.itc.it/community/index.php
Version 1.0 5/5