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GRASS Development Team
Introduction
The GRASS Development Team is pleased to announce this new
home for the
open source Geographic Resources Analysis Support
System (GRASS).
GRASS has been under continual development since 1982 and
has involved
a large number of federal US agencies, universities, and
private compa-
nies. The core components of GRASS and the management of
the integra-
tion of the efforts into GRASS releases were accomplished
by the Con-
struction Engineering Resesarch Laboratory (CERL) in
Champaign, Illi-
nois. CERL completed the last combined release of GRASS
as version 4.1
in 1992 and provided updates and patches to this release
through 1995.
It has been estimated that several million dollars of
GRASS software
development efforts across the government have been com-
pleted since the
4.1 release. Since 1997 GRASS is developed by a consortium
of worldwide
researcher and programmers at universities and private
companies. GRASS
GIS is released under GNU General Public License.
Plans
We have several goals for the release of GRASS including:
We have released GRASS version 4.2.x GRASS
4.2.x consists
of the GRASS 4.1 engine with the addi-
tion of many new
programs that have been submitted by the us-
er community.
Revamped documentation. In keeping with the
tradition of
making GRASS available to the greatest audi-
ence possible,
are releasing new versions of the documenta-
tion. The cur-
rent Users, Programmers, and Installation
Guides are cur-
rently available in Adobe PDF format.
The release of version 5.0. Major changes
to this ver-
sion includes support for floating-point
numbers and the
separation of 0 and null. This version of
GRASS gener-
ates DIFFERENT grass format files due to the
floating and
null support.
Current Status
As of December 1997, we have released GRASS 4.2 to the
public. GRASS 5
has been released under GPL license in Oktober 1999 and
already under-
gone several beta releases towards GRASS 5.0stable.
The Future of GRASS
Our main goal is to keep GRASS alive and prospering and
available to
the user community. We hope that the continued interest
in GRASS will
result in its further development and enhancement.
Researchers
List of authors Other cooperating scientists, groups, and
agencies
GRASS Development Team
Address:
GRASS Development Team
U.S. Headquarters (GRASS 4 coordination)
Center for Applied Geographic and Spatial Research
Baylor University
Phone: (254) 710-2361
email: grass@baylor.edu
P.O. Box 97354 Waco, TX 76798
European Headquarters (GRASS 5 coordination)
Institute of Physical Geography-Landscape Ecology
University of Hannover
Schneiderberg 50
30167 Hannover
Germany
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GRASS 5.0
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