GRASS-QGIS relevant module list

GRASS modules available in the QGIS toolbox

• See GRASS and QGIS and QGIS GRASS Cookbook

List of GRASS modules relevant to QGIS

Status Templates

Present in QGIS:	Available
Present in QGIS but shouldn't be
Not present in QGIS - High Priority:	Missing - Hi
Not present in QGIS - Low Priority:	Missing - Lo
Not relevant to QGIS:	Not Relevant

• "Status" is for modules currently present in qgis source code dir src/plugins/grass/modules-*/
• Color coding indicates availability of module in the GRASS Toolbox

Database modules

db.*

Module	Status	Icon	Comments
db.columns	Missing - Lo		Is this really useful? Seems better to use standard QGIS commands for this
db.connect	Available		login; generic, schema, which
db.copy	Available
db.describe	Missing - Lo
db.drivers	Missing - Lo
db.dropcol	Missing - Lo
db.droptable	Missing - Lo
db.execute	Available
db.in.ogr	Available
db.login	Available
db.out.ogr	Available
db.select	Available
db.tables	Missing - Hi		To be realy useful, it should not be an additional command, but be added as an option to v.db.connect and similar commands (requires additional C++ coding)
db.test	Missing - Lo

General modules

g.*

Module	Status	Comments
g.access	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.ask	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.copy	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.dirseps	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.extension	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.filename	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.findetc	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.findfile	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.gisenv	Missing - Lo
g.gui	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.list	Not Relevant	Handled in the Toolbox
g.manual	Available
g.mapset	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.mapsets	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.message	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.mkfontcap	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.mlist	Not Relevant	Handled in the Toolbox
g.mremove	Not Relevant
g.parser	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.pnmcomp	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.proj	Available	generic, ascii, geo, print, proj
g.region	Available	save, zoom, multi-rast multi-vect
g.remove	Not Relevant	Handled in the Toolbox
g.rename	Not Relevant	Handled in the Toolbox
g.setproj	Missing - Hi	Better to add it as an option to the "Create new location" wizard (requires additional C++ coding)
g.tempfile	Not Relevant	Not relevant
g.transform	Not Relevant
g.version	Not Relevant	Not really relevant

Imagery modules

Essentially these are raster modules that deal with satellite or aerial photography.

i.*

Module	Status	Comments
i.atcorr	Missing - Lo	Seems too complicated to be added - help needed (comment: see tutorial)
i.cca	Missing - Lo
i.class	Not Relevant
i.cluster	Missing - Lo
i.fft	Available	common
i.fusion.brovey	Available	common
i.gensig	Missing - Lo
i.gensigset	Missing - Lo
i.group	Missing - Lo
i.his.rgb	Available	common
i.ifft	Available	common
i.image.mosaic	Available	common
i.in.spotvgt	Available
i.landsat.rgb	Available	common
i.maxlik	Missing - Lo
i.oif	Available	common
i.ortho.photo	Not Relevant	Not possible
i.pca	Missing - Lo
i.points	Not Relevant	Not possible
i.rectify	Not Relevant
i.rgb.his	Available	common
i.smap	Missing - Lo
i.spectral	Not Relevant
i.target	Missing - Lo
i.tasscap	Available	common x3
i.vpoints	Not Relevant	Not possible
i.zc	Available	common

Miscellaneous modules

m.*

Module	Status	Comments
m.cogo	Available	common
m.proj	Available	common

Paint modules

These have been abandoned in GRASS 6.

p.*

Module	Status	Comments
p.out.vrml	Not Relevant	old & renamed; not for QGIS

PostScript modules

ps.*

Module	Status	Comments
ps.map	Not Relevant	QGIS has its own map composer, so this probably isn't needed.

Raster modules

r.*

Module	Status	Comments
r.average	Available	common
r.basins.fill	Available	common
r.bilinear	Available	modules-6.4 Please use "r.resamp.interp" instead.
r.bitpattern	Available	common
r.blend	Available	common
r.buffer	Available	common
r.carve	Available	common
r.category	Available	common
r.cats	Not Relevant	Wrapper script for backwards compatibility.
r.circle	Available	common
r.clump	Available	common
r.coin	Available	common
r.colors	Available	common x4, generic, rast, rules, table
r.colors.stddev	Available	modules-6.4
r.composite	Available	common
r.compress	Available	common
r.contour	Available	common x2
r.cost	Available	common
r.covar	Available	common
r.cross	Available	common
r.describe	Available	common
r.digit	Not Relevant	Not possible
r.distance	Available
r.drain	Available	common
r.external	Available	modules-6.4 x3
r.fill.dir	Available	common
r.fillnulls	Available	common
r.flow	Missing - Lo
r.grow	Available	6.4/common
r.grow.distance	Available
r.gwflow	Missing - Lo	ground water flow modeling
r.his	Available	common
r.horizon	Missing - Lo
r.import	Missing - Hi	New since Community sprint in Como as a modified version of r.in.proj
r.in.arc	Available	common
r.in.ascii	Available	common
r.in.aster	Available	common
r.in.bin	Available	common
r.in.gdal	Available	common x4, generic, loc, qgis.loc, qgis
r.in.gridatb	Available	common
r.in.mat	Available	common
r.in.poly	Available	common
r.in.srtm	Available	common
r.in.wms	Available	common, somewhat brittle
r.in.xyz	Available	common
r.info	Not Relevant	Handled in the Toolbox
r.kappa	Available	common
r.lake	Available	common x3, generic, seed, xy
r.le.setup	Missing - Hi	Creates configuration for r.le.* analysis modules. Requires a dedicated GUI.
r.le.patch	Missing - Hi
r.le.pixel	Missing - Hi
r.le.trace	Missing - Hi
r.li.setup	Missing - Hi	Creates configuration file for r.li.* analysis modules. Requires a dedicated GUI.
r.li.cwed	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.dominance	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.edgedensity	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.mpa	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.mps	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.padcv	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.padrange	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.padsd	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.patchdensity	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.patchnum	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.richness	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.shannon	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.shape	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.li.simpson	Missing - Hi	Done, but needs r.li.setup.
r.los	Available	common
r.mapcalc	Available	common
r.mapcalculator	Available	common, gui wrapper (need both?)
r.mask	Available	common
r.median	Available	common
r.mfilter	Available	common
r.mfilter.fp	Available
r.mode	Available	common
r.neighbors	Available	common
r.null	Available	common x4, null, to, val, r.to.null?
r.out.arc	Available	common
r.out.ascii	Available	common
r.out.bin	Available
r.out.gdal	Available	common x2 generic, GeoTiff
r.out.gdal.sh	Missing - Lo	old full map extent version
r.out.gridatb	Available	common
r.out.mat	Available	common
r.out.mpeg	Available	common
r.out.png	Available	common, important once transparency and Worldfile gets backported from 6.5svn (for OpenLayers/KML tile source)
r.out.pov	Available	common POVray
r.out.ppm	Available	common
r.out.ppm3	Available	common
r.out.tiff	Available	common, visual RGB output, not data values (use r.out.gdal for that)
r.out.vrml	Available	common
r.out.vtk	Available	common
r.out.xyz	Available	common
r.param.scale	Available	common
r.patch	Available	common
r.plane	Available	common
r.profile	Missing - Lo	Python plugin available to find transect profile
r.proj	Available	common
r.quant	Available	common
r.quantile	Missing - Lo
r.random	Available
r.random.cells	Available	common
r.random.surface	Missing - Lo
r.reclass	Available	common x2, generic, file
r.reclass.area	Available	common x3, generic, greater, lesser
r.recode	Available	common
r.region	Available	Oversold?, common x6, generic, rast, vect, region, edge, alignTo
r.regression.line	Available	common
r.report	Available	common
r.resamp.interp	Available	common
r.resamp.rst	Available	common
r.resamp.stats	Available	common
r.resample	Available	common
r.rescale	Available	common
r.rescale.eq	Missing - Lo
r.ros	Missing - Lo
r.series	Available	common
r.shaded.relief	Available	common
r.sim.sediment	Missing - Lo
r.sim.water	Missing - Lo
r.slope.aspect	Available	common x2, slope, aspect, but not others
r.spread	Missing - Lo
r.spreadpath	Missing - Lo
r.statistics	Available	common
r.stats	Missing - Lo
r.sum	Available	common
r.sun	Missing - Hi
r.sunmask	Available	common x2, date_time, position
r.support	Available	common
r.support.stats	Available	common, maybe not needed
r.surf.area	Available	common
r.surf.contour	Available	common
r.surf.fractal	Available	6.3/6.4
r.surf.gauss	Available	common
r.surf.idw	Available	common, faster
r.surf.idw2	Available	common, supports floating point
r.surf.random	Available	common
r.terraflow	Missing - Lo
r.terraflow.short	Not Relevant	Not needed
r.texture	Available	common x2, generic, bis
r.thin	Available	common
r.tileset	Not Relevant
r.timestamp	Not Relevant
r.to.rast3	Missing - Lo
r.to.rast3elev	Missing - Lo
r.to.vect	Available	common x3, point, line, area
r.topidx	Available	common
r.topmodel	Missing - Lo
r.transect	Available	common
r.univar	Available	common
r.univar.sh	Not Relevant	Not needed
r.volume	Available	common
r.walk	Available
r.water.outlet	Available	common
r.watershed	Available	common
r.what	Not Relevant	Handled in the QGIS GUI
r.what.color	Not Relevant

3D raster modules

r3.*

Module	Status	Comments
r3.cross.rast	Missing - Lo
r3.gwflow	Missing - Lo
r3.in.ascii	Missing - Lo
r3.in.v5d	Missing - Lo
r3.info	Missing - Lo
r3.mapcalc	Missing - Lo
r3.mapcalculator	Missing - Lo
r3.mask	Missing - Lo
r3.mkdspf	Missing - Lo
r3.null	Missing - Lo
r3.out.ascii	Missing - Lo
r3.out.v5d	Missing - Lo
r3.out.vtk	Missing - Lo
r3.stats	Missing - Lo
r3.timestamp	Missing - Lo
r3.to.rast	Missing - Lo
r3.univar	Missing - Lo

Vector modules

v.*

Module	Status	Icon	Comments
v.buffer	Available		6.3/6.4, https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/994
v.build	Available		see specific modules
v.build.all	Available		common
v.build.polylines	Available		common
v.category	Available		common x4, add, del, sum, change
v.centroids	Available		common
v.class	Missing - Lo		Fuctionality supplied in QGIS Vector symbology
v.clean	Available		common x13
v.colors	Not Relevant		Fuctionality supplied in QGIS Vector symbology
v.convert	Not Relevant		For loading in old GRASS 4/5 vector data format. Not needed by QGIS.
v.convert.all	Not Relevant		For loading in old GRASS 4/5 vector data format. Not needed by QGIS.
v.db.addcol	Available		common
v.db.addtable	Available		common
v.db.connect	Available		common, v.db.sconnect? v.db.what.connect?
v.db.dropcol	Available		modules-6.4
v.db.droptable	Available		common
v.db.join	Available		common
v.db.reconnect.all	Available		common
v.db.renamecol	Available		common
v.db.select	Available		6.3/6.4 x2
v.db.univar	Available		common
v.db.update	Available		common x4, const, op, op query, query
v.delaunay	Available		common x2, line, area
v.digit	Not Relevant		Not possible
v.dissolve	Available		common
v.distance	Available		common
v.drape	Available		common
v.edit	Missing - Hi		Requires an ad hoc GUI (more C++ coding)
v.external	Missing - Lo
v.extract	Available		common, list, where
v.extrude	Missing - Lo
v.generalize	Available		common, complicated
v.hull	Available		common
v.import	Missing - Hi		New since Community sprint in Como as a modified version of v.in.proj
v.in.ascii	Available		Added in r14546
v.in.db	Available		common
v.in.dxf	Available		common x2, generic, multi
v.in.e00	Available		common
v.in.garmin	Available		common, only for old serial models
v.in.geonames	Available		modules-6.4
v.in.gns	Available		modules-6.4
v.in.gpsbabel	Available		common
v.in.lines	Available		Only in 6.5svn, new wrapper script around v.in.mapgen with more obvious name
v.in.mapgen	Available		common
v.in.ogr	Available		common x7
v.in.region	Available		common
v.in.sites	Not Relevant		For loading in old GRASS 4/5 vector data format. Not needed by QGIS.
v.in.sites.all	Not Relevant		For loading in old GRASS 4/5 vector data format. Not needed by QGIS.
v.in.wfs	Missing - Hi		Requires curl (not always available); errors with some servers
v.info	Not Relevant		Functionality supplied in Toolbox
v.kcv	Available		common
v.kernel	Available		common
v.krige.py	Missing - Hi		Available only from GRASS 6.5
v.label	Not Relevant		Functionality supplied in QGIS GUI
v.label.sa	Not Relevant		Functionality supplied in QGIS GUI
v.lidar.correction	Missing - Lo
v.lidar.edgedetection	Missing - Lo
v.lidar.growing	Missing - Lo
v.lrs.create	Missing - Lo		Python plugin for Linear Referencing available
v.lrs.label	Missing - Lo
v.lrs.segment	Missing - Lo
v.lrs.where	Missing - Lo
v.mkgrid	Available		common, by region (by coord is a custom graticule creator)
v.neighbors	Available		common
v.net	Available		common
v.net.nodes	Available
v.net.alloc	Available		common
v.net.allpairs	Missing - Lo
v.net.bridge	Missing - Lo
v.net.centrality	Missing - Lo
v.net.components	Missing - Lo
v.net.connectivity	Missing - Lo
v.net.distance	Missing - Lo
v.net.flow	Missing - Lo
v.net.iso	Available		common
v.net.path	Available		common
v.net.salesman	Available		common
v.net.spanningtree	Missing - Lo
v.net.steiner	Available		common
v.net.timetable	Missing - Lo
v.net.visibility	Available		common
v.normal	Missing - Lo		common
v.out.ascii	Available		common
v.out.dxf	Available		common
v.out.gpsbabel	Missing - Lo
v.out.ogr	Available		6.3/6.4/common x4, shapefile, generic, gml, mapinfo; 6.x: PostgreSQL
v.out.pov	Available		common
v.out.svg	Available		common
v.out.vtk	Available		common
v.outlier	Available		common
v.overlay	Available		common x4, and, or, not, xor
v.parallel	Available		common
v.patch	Available		common
v.perturb	Available		common
v.proj	Available		common
v.qcount	Missing - Lo
v.random	Available		common
v.rast.stats	Available		common
v.reclass	Available		common x2, attr, file
v.report	Available		common
v.sample	Available		common
v.segment	Available		common
v.select	Available		common, v.select.overlap
v.split	Available		common
v.support	Available		common
v.surf.bspline	Available		common
v.surf.idw	Available		common
v.surf.rst	Available		common
v.to.3d	Missing - Lo
v.to.db	Available		6.3/6.4
v.to.points	Available		common
v.to.rast	Available		common x2, attr, constant
v.to.rast3	Missing - Lo
v.transform	Available		common
v.type	Available		common x4, b2l, l2b, c2p, p2c
v.univar	Available		common
v.univar.sh	Not Relevant		old, not needed
v.vol.rst	Missing - Lo
v.voronoi	Available		common x2, line, area; https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/957
v.what	Not Relevant		QGIS GUI supplies query at location function
v.what.rast	Available		common
v.what.vect	Available		common

GUI and command modules

GUI modules

Module	Status	Comments
gis.m	Not Relevant	Not relevant
nviz	Available	common
shell	Available	common
xganim	Missing - Lo

Display modules

d.*

None of the display modules will be relevant. Display functionality is handled in the QGIS GUI.