GRASS How To: Copyright Notice, and Notice on Support of this Document
9.1. Copyright notice This document was prepared by a Federal civil servant in support of his work (but mostly on his own time). It is … Read more
GRASS How To: The Future of GRASS?
Excellent question! Several possible answers have been thrown out: USA/CERL’s announced intention is to use GRASS and COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software) for internal uses, to … Read more
GRASS How To: Web-based Support for GRASS (and for GIS Matters in General)
Support for a public domain program? No way, they say! Actually, as a user of Linux, you probably know better. GRASS started by having a … Read more
GRASS How To: How to Get GRASS Running on Your Linux-based Computer
Appendices A, B, and C describe how to acquire and install GRASS. Before actually installing GRASS, you will have to decide where to put three … Read more
GRASS How To: How to Acquire GRASS
GRASS used to be available on tape from various companies that signed distribution agreements with USA/CERL. These companies usually supported specific platform environments, such as … Read more
GRASS How To: System Requirements for GRASS
Minimum requirements include: 8 Mbytes of memory (of course, more is better..) 100 Mbytes of free disk space ~40 mb for executables, ~40 mb for … Read more
GRASS How To: Continued Assessment of Future GRASS Management
Note: An ad-hoc group (which includes myself) is exploring the basic issue of continued, reconfigured, yea perhaps increased, value of GRASS as a public test-bed … Read more
GRASS How To: A Reinvigorated GRASS Management Model
In late 1997, a group at Baylor University took the lead in developing a new Website for GRASS. This quickly developing Website contains GRASS 4.1 … Read more
GRASS How To: A Brief History of GRASS
In the early 1980s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, began to explore the possibilities of … Read more
GRASS How To: What is GRASS?
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a public domain raster based GIS, vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system. Created by the … Read more
GRASS How To: What is a GIS?
There are many ways to describe a Geographic Information System. Here are three working definitions (from David A. Hastings, 1992, Geographic Information Systems: A Tool … Read more
The Geographic Information Systems: GRASS How To
This document describes how to acquire, install and configure a powerful scientific public-domain Geographic Information System (GIS): the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). It provides information on other resources for learning more about GRASS and GIS in general.