NSF POSE Project 2023-2025 Timeline
To inform GRASS community about the work done as part of the award 2303651 from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance GRASS ecosystem, the following report summarizes the progress and outcomes in quarterly reports and presents the roadmap for the project.
The two main goals of the project are: 1) to facilitate the adoption of GRASS GIS as a key geoprocessing engine by a growing number of researchers and geospatial practitioners in academia, governments, and industry; and 2) to expand and diversify the developer community, especially through supporting next-generation scientists to gain expertise to maintain and innovate GRASS software.
1st quarter report
Project announcement and info session
- Announcement on GRASS website
- Info session to explain the POSE Project (Announcement on GRASS user mailing list)
- Set up collecting statistics from GitHub, X and others
GRASS GIS conference presentations
- Parallelization Tips for Geoprocessing with GRASS GIS by Anna Petrasova at FOSS4GNA, October 2023.
- GRASS GIS: Not What You Think by Vaclav Petras at FOSS4GNA, October 2023.
- Computational Notebooks for Reproducible Geospatial Computation in Research and Education by Caitlin Haedrich at FOSS4GNA, October 2023.
- State of GRASS GIS: 40 Years Strong and Counting by Huidae Cho at FOSS4G Asia, November 2023.
GRASS GIS workshops
- Unlock the power of GRASS GIS by Anna Petrasova and Caitlin Haedrich at FOSS4GNA, October 2023.
- Develop Geospatial Workflows and Custom Tools with GRASS GIS by Vaclav Petras and Corey White at FOSS4GNA, October 2023.
- Big Data Computing with GRASS GIS by Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras at NC State GIS week, November 2023.
OSGeo Community Sprint participation
Anna Petrasova and Vaclav Petras remotely participated in OSGeo 2023 code sprint doing PR reviews and maintenance of GRASS GIS code, documentation, and website.
Mentoring program
Development-oriented mentoring program announced
- wiki page
- 4 participants (from 12 responses), supported by email and video calls
Resulted in improvements to GRASS GIS core and addons:
- merged PR: grass.script: ensure memmap content is flushed before writing to a raster
- radar addon toolset PR: Add i.saocom and i.sar toolsets
Student grants
Student grants announced with topics at a wiki page
Working Groups created
4 working groups created
Google Scholar update
GRASS GIS Google Scholar account updated with more complete records
- a form was created to collect missing records
- added to GRASS website Contribute and Citation page
GRASS GIS training
Geocomputation and Machine Learning for Environmental Applications training course announced. GRASS GIS part free of charge led by Giuseppe Amatulli.