Applications
Over the past decade Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from a highly specialized niche to a technology that affects nearly every aspect of our lives, from finding driving directions to managing natural disasters.
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 GIS 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.
Note: the linked pages are hosted on the GRASS GIS Wiki:
- Archeology
- Agriculture and HPC
- Cartography
- Energy calculations
- Environmental Protection and Monitoring
- Geology
- Geomorphometry
- Geophysics
- Hydrological Sciences - including ice cover and groundwater flow
- Invasive Species modelling
- Landscape ecology
- Landscape Genetics
- Marine Science
- Meteorology
- Natural Hazards
- Planetary mapping
- Planning
- Public Health
- Remote Sensing (in Image processing)
- Search and Rescue
- Soil Science
- Wildlife Zoology
Documentation >> Applications | Last change: 24-Aug-2013