GRASS-QGIS relevant module list

GRASS modules available in the QGIS toolbox

• See GRASS and QGIS

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	Comments
db.columns	Missing - Hi
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
db.test	Missing - Lo

General modules

g.*

Module	Status	Comments
g.access
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	Template:ModuleNotAvailablelo
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
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 - Hi
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	Missing - Hi
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	Missing - Hi
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.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.patch	Missing - Hi
r.le.pixel	Missing - Hi
r.le.setup	Missing - Hi	Landscape Ecology analyses
r.le.trace	Missing - Hi
r.li.cwed	Missing - Hi
r.li.dominance	Missing - Hi
r.li.edgedensity	Missing - Hi
r.li.mpa	Missing - Hi
r.li.mps	Missing - Hi
r.li.padcv	Missing - Hi
r.li.padrange	Missing - Hi
r.li.padsd	Missing - Hi
r.li.patchdensity	Missing - Hi
r.li.patchnum	Template:ModuleNotAvailablei
r.li.richness	Missing - Hi
r.li.setup	Missing - Hi
r.li.shannon	Missing - Hi
r.li.shape	Missing - Hi
r.li.simpson	Missing - Hi
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	Missing - Hi
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	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
v.external	Missing - Lo
v.extract	Available	common, list, where
v.extrude	Missing - Lo
v.generalize	Available	common, complicated
v.hull	Available	common
v.in.ascii	Missing - Hi
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
v.info	Not Relevant	Functionality supplied in Toolbox
v.kcv	Available	common
v.kernel	Available	common
v.krige.py	Missing - Hi
v.label	Not Relevant	Functionality supplied in QGIS GUI
v.label.sa	Not Relevant	Functionality supplied in QGIS GUI
v.lidar.correction	Missing - Hi
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.