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| This wiki page is initially for organizing the writing of a GRASS entry for the "''Springer Encyclopedia of GIS''", in future this wiki page will contain the article itself.
| | * See the {{website|intro|About GRASS}} page on the main GRASS website. |
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| === The entry structure ===
| | * {{wikipedia|GRASS_GIS}} wikipedia page |
| The Structure of the entry is given by springer. I received a .tex file which I fill with the text when this text is reviewd by the community (and my wife because she's an english teacher :-)).
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| === The Entry ===
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| GRASS
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| | : This page used to contain the Entry for the Springer Encyclopaedia of GIS. To avoid any copyright problems I deleted all content (of course I made a backup...), because the copyright is owned by Springer. But Springer will grant us the permission to reprint the Entry in one of our forthcoming newsletter. |
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| ==== Author ====
| | : But if anyone will have a look at the entry, just send me an email: |
| Malte Halbey-Martin, Inst. for Geogr. Sciences, Free University Berlin, Germany
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| Please put your name here when you have written something
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| ==== Synonyms ====
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| Geographic Research Analysis Support Software, GRASS- GIS
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| ==== Definition (fewer than 250 words)====
| | : Thanks to all who helped me to finish the entry! |
| GRASS- GIS (Geographic Ressource Analysis Support Software) is a GIS- software for geospatial analysis and modelling which has the capabilities to manage raster and vectordata. Additional it supports three dimensional modelling with 3D raster voxel or 3D vector data and contains several image processing modules to manipulate remote sensing data. It comes along with visualisation tools and interacts with other related software packages e. g. R- language, gstat and Quantum GIS. GRASS supports a variety of GIS formats due to the usage of the GDAL/OGR library. It also supports the OGC- conformal Simple Features.
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| The software is published under the conditions of the GNU Public Licence (GPL) so anyone can see the source code, the internal structure of the program and the algorithms which are used. Every user can improve, modify, or extend GRASS for his own needs. A striking advantage of the program is that no licence fees have to be paid because of the terms of the GPL. Programmers all over the world contribute to the software and it is one of the biggest Open Source projects in the world (more than one million lines of source code).
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| GRASS runs on a variety of platforms like GNU/Linux, MS- Windows, MacOS X and POSIX compliant systems. It is completly written in C although a Java version also exist (JGRASS).
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| ==== Historical Background (fewer than 500 words) ====
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| Just working on that.
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| see GRASS history page: http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html
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| ==== Scientific fundamentals ====
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| Dunno exactly what I'm going to write here. Maybe something about the structure off the program. Maybe some algorithms which are used and some functions. Model builder and so on...
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| One distinguishing thing about GRASS versus other GISs is that you are free to explore the source code to study the exact algorithms used.
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| ==== Key applications ====
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| ==== Future directions ====
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| Open probs and discussions
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| * 3D- Modelling?<BR>Much of the infrastructure and modules are already in place.
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| * GUI?<BR>GRASS will be moving to a new unified GUI for Mac, PC, and UNIX using WxWidgets and Python. Prototype code is already working.
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| ==== Recommended Reading (5 - 15 entries) ====
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| (of course) Neteler, M. & Mitasova, H. (2004): Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach. 2nd Edition. Boston.
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| ==== Aditional definitions ====
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| If there are some definition in our text which would be worse mentioned in the Encyclopaedia...
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| === What needs to be done? ===
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| The deadline is something about 'late december, after Christmas'
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| the entry should be 8-12 pages - here is an example: | |
| http://refworks.springer.com/mrw/fileadmin/pdf/GIS/VoronoiEncy
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| Here is some additional information:
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| http://refworks.springer.com/geograph/
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| Here are the templates:
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| http://refworks.springer.com/geograph/
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| And here is a list of other entries (as of 2006-11-21)
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| http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/gis_encyclopedia_toc.pdf
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| === Contact & Coordination===
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| Malte Halbey-Martin | |
| Free University Berlin
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| Dept. of Geosciences
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| Inst. of Geogr. Sciences
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| Malteserstr. 74-100
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| D-12249 Berlin, Germany
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| tel: +49.30.83870409
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| fax: +49.30.83870755
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| email: malte at geog.fu-berlin.de
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| online: www.geog.fu-berlin.de/~malte
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| </pre>
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| === Springer contact ===
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| Jennifer Carlson / Andrea Schmidt
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| Development Editors
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| Springer
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| 233 Spring Street
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| New York, NY 10016
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| tel: 212.460.1666
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| fax: 212.460.1594
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| email: jennifer.carlson at springer.com
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| online: www.springer.com
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| Andreas Neumann <neumann at karto.baug.ethz.ch>
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| Institute of Cartography
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| ETH Zurich
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| Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
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| CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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| Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
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| e-mail: neumann at karto.baug.ethz.ch
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| www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
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| SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
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| Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/
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