GRASS: Applications

GRASS Applications

GRASS GIS is a general purpose raster/vector GIS combined with integrated image processing and data visualization subsystems. It includes a large number of modules for management, processing, analysis and visualization of georeferenced data.

Unlike most proprietary GIS, GRASS provides complete access to its internal structure and algorithms. Advanced users who want to write their own GIS modules may therefore learn from existing modules as well as by reading the ``GRASS Programmer's Manual''. The documented GRASS GIS libraries with the Application Programming Interface (API) make the new module development more efficient and allow to integrate new functionality into GRASS. Applications can be also written with shell scripts to automate the GIS workflow.

• Archeology
• Agriculture and HPC
• Energy calculations
• Environmental Protection and Monitoring
• Geology
• Geomorphometry
• Geophysics
• Hydrological Sciences - including ice cover and groundwater flow
• Marine Science
• Meteorology
• Natural Hazards
• Planetary mapping
• Public Health
• Remote Sensing
• Search and Rescue
• Soil Science
• Wildlife Zoology
• ...

GRASS applications in research, business and industry

• RIADE - Integrated Research for Applying new technologies and processes for combating DEsertification
• pd-GRASS: Parallel display for GRASS - web site, and journal article (Sorokine, 2007)
• Commercial and professional GRASS support