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OPEN SOURCE GIS
A GRASS GIS
Approach
Third Edition
by
Markus Neteler
FBK-irst & CEA, Trento, Italy
Helena Mitasova
North Carolina State University, USA
Springer 2008
Book is essential for teachers, students and engineers, who use the soft. Open Source GIS, Grass.
Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is one of the
largest Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) projects released
under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It combines powerful
raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software
suite and includes tools for spatial analysis, modeling, image processing
and sophisticated visualization.
With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we
enter the new era of GRASS 6, the first release that includes substantial new
code developed by the International GRASS Development Team. It comes at
a time when dramatic growth in acceptance of the Open Source concept fuels
further development of Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics
(FOSS4G) and brings interoperability to a new level of efficiency. The major
FOSS4G projects, including GRASS, have become part of the OSGeo foundation
– an organization established in 2006 to ”support and promote the
collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.“ Following
the spirit of the foundation, GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest
GDAL/OGR and PROJ libraries supporting range of raster and vector formats,
as well as projections. GRASS toolkits for Quantum GIS (QGIS) and R
Project for Statistical Computing have been developed thanks to strong links
with these projects.
The third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach reflects
these new developments. The first chapter includes information about the
OSGeo foundation. Chapter three that introduces GRASS and the new sample
data set, has added information about the new graphical user interfaces
that can be used with GRASS 6. The properties of GRASS raster and vector
data are described in chapter four, which also includes extensive material
on importing data in various formats, and an introduction to new geocoding
tool. The raster chapter has been enhanced with new examples, more comprehensive
topographic analysis and modeling, and introduction to voxel data
processing. The chapter on vector data has been completely rewritten to reflect
introduction of a new vector data format and attribute support through
XII Preface third edition
database management system (DBMS) in GRASS 6. This chapter now includes
new sections on attribute database management and SQL support,
vector networks analysis, linear reference systems, and lidar data applications.
The site data chapter of earlier book editions was integrated within the
chapter six as vector point data processing section. The visualization chapter
reflects the changes in 2D display, nviz, and use of Paraview. Image processing
was reduced and updated, orthophoto chapter was eliminated to make space
for more new material. Application chapter was merged with raster analysis.
Equations and SQLite-ODBC connection guide were added into Appendix.
All chapters were enhanced with numerous practical examples using the first
release of a free, comprehensive, state-of-the-art geospatial data set. The examples
are based on the GRASS 6.3 version from July 2007.
Finally, we briefly recall history of GRASS and this book: GRASS was
developed in 1982-1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois to support
land management at military installations. After CERL withdrew from further
GRASS development in 1995, the GRASS 4.2.1 release, published in 1998, was
coordinated by this book’s author at the Institute of Physical Geography and
Landscape Ecology, University of Hannover. The development of the GRASS
5.0 release started in 1999 when GRASS was released under GPL. Since 2001,
the “GRASS Development Team” has its headquarters at FBKITC-irst (Centro
per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Trento, Italy. GRASS 5.0.0 was
officially released in 2002, accompanied by the first FOSS4G – GRASS users
conference held in September 2002 in Trento, Italy, and by the publication of
the first edition of this book.
The book has its own history. It started as “GRASS Recipes” written in
1995 for students at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, University of
Hannover. In 1996, the first continuous German text was written and later
published in “Geosynthesis” series at the Geographical Institute, University
of Hannover. The first english edition of the book, published in June 2002,
was the result of collaborative work of a number of translators and a new
coauthor. It was written for the GRASS 5.0pre3 release. The second edition,
published in 2004, was based on the GRASS 5.3 release and included updates
reflecting the system enhancements and the feedback from our readers. This
third edition is based on GRASS 6 and represents a fundamental update and
enhancement of the material.
The GRASS project’s Web site, providing access to the GRASS software
and documentation, can be reached at “GRASS Headquarters” at
http://grass.itc.it and a number of mirror sites. The material related
to this book can be accessed at http://grassbook.org.
From now on, all my posts without charge credits for you.( only links )
http://www.4shared.com/file/O6tMU7-3/Open_Source_GIS.html
Knowledge friends .....
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A GRASS GIS
Approach
Third Edition
by
Markus Neteler
FBK-irst & CEA, Trento, Italy
Helena Mitasova
North Carolina State University, USA
Springer 2008
Book is essential for teachers, students and engineers, who use the soft. Open Source GIS, Grass.
Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is one of the
largest Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) projects released
under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It combines powerful
raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software
suite and includes tools for spatial analysis, modeling, image processing
and sophisticated visualization.
With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we
enter the new era of GRASS 6, the first release that includes substantial new
code developed by the International GRASS Development Team. It comes at
a time when dramatic growth in acceptance of the Open Source concept fuels
further development of Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics
(FOSS4G) and brings interoperability to a new level of efficiency. The major
FOSS4G projects, including GRASS, have become part of the OSGeo foundation
– an organization established in 2006 to ”support and promote the
collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.“ Following
the spirit of the foundation, GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest
GDAL/OGR and PROJ libraries supporting range of raster and vector formats,
as well as projections. GRASS toolkits for Quantum GIS (QGIS) and R
Project for Statistical Computing have been developed thanks to strong links
with these projects.
The third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach reflects
these new developments. The first chapter includes information about the
OSGeo foundation. Chapter three that introduces GRASS and the new sample
data set, has added information about the new graphical user interfaces
that can be used with GRASS 6. The properties of GRASS raster and vector
data are described in chapter four, which also includes extensive material
on importing data in various formats, and an introduction to new geocoding
tool. The raster chapter has been enhanced with new examples, more comprehensive
topographic analysis and modeling, and introduction to voxel data
processing. The chapter on vector data has been completely rewritten to reflect
introduction of a new vector data format and attribute support through
XII Preface third edition
database management system (DBMS) in GRASS 6. This chapter now includes
new sections on attribute database management and SQL support,
vector networks analysis, linear reference systems, and lidar data applications.
The site data chapter of earlier book editions was integrated within the
chapter six as vector point data processing section. The visualization chapter
reflects the changes in 2D display, nviz, and use of Paraview. Image processing
was reduced and updated, orthophoto chapter was eliminated to make space
for more new material. Application chapter was merged with raster analysis.
Equations and SQLite-ODBC connection guide were added into Appendix.
All chapters were enhanced with numerous practical examples using the first
release of a free, comprehensive, state-of-the-art geospatial data set. The examples
are based on the GRASS 6.3 version from July 2007.
Finally, we briefly recall history of GRASS and this book: GRASS was
developed in 1982-1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois to support
land management at military installations. After CERL withdrew from further
GRASS development in 1995, the GRASS 4.2.1 release, published in 1998, was
coordinated by this book’s author at the Institute of Physical Geography and
Landscape Ecology, University of Hannover. The development of the GRASS
5.0 release started in 1999 when GRASS was released under GPL. Since 2001,
the “GRASS Development Team” has its headquarters at FBKITC-irst (Centro
per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Trento, Italy. GRASS 5.0.0 was
officially released in 2002, accompanied by the first FOSS4G – GRASS users
conference held in September 2002 in Trento, Italy, and by the publication of
the first edition of this book.
The book has its own history. It started as “GRASS Recipes” written in
1995 for students at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, University of
Hannover. In 1996, the first continuous German text was written and later
published in “Geosynthesis” series at the Geographical Institute, University
of Hannover. The first english edition of the book, published in June 2002,
was the result of collaborative work of a number of translators and a new
coauthor. It was written for the GRASS 5.0pre3 release. The second edition,
published in 2004, was based on the GRASS 5.3 release and included updates
reflecting the system enhancements and the feedback from our readers. This
third edition is based on GRASS 6 and represents a fundamental update and
enhancement of the material.
The GRASS project’s Web site, providing access to the GRASS software
and documentation, can be reached at “GRASS Headquarters” at
http://grass.itc.it and a number of mirror sites. The material related
to this book can be accessed at http://grassbook.org.
From now on, all my posts without charge credits for you.( only links )
http://www.4shared.com/file/O6tMU7-3/Open_Source_GIS.html
Knowledge friends .....
ANTRF
If you like my stuff, do not forget to thank and add my rep.