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1982 http://grass.osgeo.org , underGPLsince 1998 Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy pre-Internet times... pre-Internet GIS: source open of days early The 1990 SteeringCommitee GRASS Interagency GRASS 1982: GRASS GIS GRASS 1982: MOSS 1978: 1992 Foundation (OGF) Foundation Open GRASS Open Consortium (OGC) Consortium(OGC) 1994 Open GIS OpenGISOpen Geospatial 1987: William 1987: Shatner narrates ... 2004 2006 OSGeo Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy links to Open Source tools links to Open Source modeling and simulations visualization image processing 2D/3D vector data processing 2D/3D raster data processing geospatial data integration ● ● ● ● ● ● ● MySQL, gvSIG-Sextante, ... gvSIG-Sextante, MySQL, gstat, R-stats, QGIS, raster data, vector and raster for stamp time support, data temporal spread, fire transport, pollutant and erosion hydrologic, and surfaces of visualization 3D pan, and zoom with data vector and raster of display 2D correction radiometric detection, edge and classification smap analysis, and rectification of analysis and processing triangulation, polygons, Voronoi approximation, and interpolation spatial vector management, data vector multi-attribute logic) (Bayes system expert analysis, covariant correlation, insolation and routing flow landforms, and parameters topographic analysis, geometry volume and surface algebra, map 3D and 2D interpolation and transformations systems coordinate formats, various in data of export and import projections volumes network analysis network , cost surfaces, shortest path, bu path, shortest surfaces, cost , measures, ecology landscape ers, with vector data, 2D and 3D animations, hardcopy postscript maps, postscript hardcopy animations, 3D and 2D data, vector with and approximation and orthophoto , transformations between raster and vector data, data, vector and raster between transformations , ZOO-WPS , spatial autocorrelation, summary statistics, multivariate multivariate statistics, summary autocorrelation, spatial , multispectral GRASS GIS: Functionality GIS: GRASS generation, principal and canonical component component canonical and principal generation, , Paraview, GPS tools, GDAL/OGR, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, GDAL/OGR, tools, GPS Paraview, , time series time topological aerial and satellite data, image image data, satellite aerial and ff watershed analysis digitizing, overlay, bu overlay, digitizing, ers, analysis, line of sight, of sight, line analysis, 2D/3D spatial 2D/3D SQL ff Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy GRASS GIS: Interoperability – Import GRASS Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy GRASS GIS: Interoperability – Export GRASS Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy Povray Visualization: GRASS data export export data GRASS Visualization: rendering ( rendering to Paraview and Povray and Paraview to www.povray.org ): adding clouds and haze Paraview in rendering Stereo ( www.paraview.org ) Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy also also true 3D vector supported 3D buildings;with extruded Elevationmodel combined GRASS: Raster and3D vector GRASS: virtual globes Optional:for KML export Italy Trento, Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG, Udine, Italy GRASS: geocoding ofhistorical maps GRASS: Markus Neteler, 2011: GRASS GIS and Sextante Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG,
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