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Technical Data Sheet
This page is for the design of a technical data sheet for promotion purposes.
Technical Data Sheet Content
License
- GNU General Public License
Design
- Modular design
- consists of more than 350 stand alone modules
Programming Language
- C
- Python
- Python with ctypes package to access C API
- Python WebGIS applications
Data management capabilities
- Raster / vector processing
- 3D raster / vector modelling
- Image manipulation
- Network analyses
- Geostatistics (R language)
Supported file formats
GRASS uses the GDAL/ORG library for the export/import of non-GRASS file formats.
Supported vector formats
ASCII, ARC/INFO ungenerate, ARC/INFO E00, ArcView SHAPE (with topology correction), BIL, DLG (U.S.), DXF, DXF3D, GMT, GPS-ASCII, USGS-DEM, IDRISI, MOSS, MapInfo MIF, TIGER, VRML
Supported raster formats
ASCII, ARC/GRID, E00, GIF, GMT, TIF, PNG, ERDAS LAN, Vis5D, SURFER (.grd)
Supported image formats
CEOS (SAR, SRTM, LANDSAT7 etc.), ERDAS LAN, HDF, LANDSAT TM/MSS, NHAP aerial photos, SAR, SPOT
Supported Databases
- DBF - grass-dbf
- PostgreSQL / PostGIS - grass-pg
- MySQL - grass-mysql / grass-mesql
- SQLite - grass-sqlite
- ODBC Driver - grass-odbc
Supported Platforms
Platform (operating systems) GRASS GIS is supported on:
- Linux (different GNU/Linux distributions)
- macOS (formerly MacOS X)
- POSIX-oriented and Unix-like operating system
- Microsoft Windows