What is GRASS GIS?

   GRASS is a very powerful and completely free GIS software suite for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows (through the Cygwin shell). Below are a collection of various instructions, presentations, and scripts that I have made and which have to do with GRASS. Also, please visit the the GRASS homepage: http://grass.itc.it

How to Install GRASS from source code on Fedora Core 4 and MEPIS Debian/Ubuntu Linux.

    Follow the link below to my installation guide for putting GRASS on a Fedora Core 4 or Debian/Ubuntu (linux) machine using the CVS source code available from the GRASS CVS server. These instructions have been tested on two FC4 machines, and two machines running MEPIS debian/ubuntu, but only reflect my own personal experience with relation to these two machines. Your experience may differ.


How to install GRASS from source codes on FC4 and Debian/Ubuntu (note, the debian/ubuntu instructions are only half done at the moment! I'll be finishing it shortly...)

GRASS scripts

    Below is a link to a tar archive of grass scripts that I and Alex Miller have made for the the Medland project here at ASU. Exctract the files into the scripts directory under the GRASS install tree. Make sure to check that the files are "executable" in the file properties dialog window. The files include scripts to model erosion and deposition (r.landscape.evol), grow catchments around sites (r.cost.areas), model land-use (r.landuse.ag and r.landuse.pastoral), and other modules useful only with other supplementary modeled data for climate retrodiction (see Medlands website for details). No support or help is available for these scripts at the moment as the are all very experimental pre-alpha versions. If you are interested in using them, please contact me.

Medland project GRASS scripts (scripts.tar.gz)

Presentations

    GIS for Anthropologists:

                Lecture 1 (ppt)

               
                GIS Bibliography (pdf)
               

GIS Links

   

Resources for GRASS:

 

• Grass homepage: http://grass.itc.it
• WinGRASS: http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html
• MacGRASS: http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/
• GRASS in a Nutshell Tutorial: http://mpa.itc.it/markus/osg05/

 

 

Other Free GIS Software:

 

• Your main source to many links to various free  and open source GIS software: http://www.freegis.org/
• Another list of open source GIS: http://opensourcegis.org/
• Fully functional free GIS for windows (Microdem): http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdem.htm
• Another fully functional free GIS for Windows and Linux (Saga): http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php
• A good GIS that interfaces with GRASS (in Mac and Linux and hopefully soon in Windows) and GRASS data  and makes really nice-looking output maps (Qgis): http://qgis.org/
• A great tool for working with Geotiffs in Linux and Windows (FWtools): http://fwtools.maptools.org/
• Two great free tools for dealing with satellite imagery that have many GIS-like components: (Multispec) http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/Index.html, and (OSSIM) http://www.ossim.org/
• A complete Linux operating system dedicated to GIS and Archaeology! (ArcheOS): http://www.arc-team.com/archeos/index.html
• Several less functional, but still useful GIS or GIS-like free softwares: (DIVA) http://www.diva-gis.org/, (TNTlite) http://www.microimages.com/tntlite/, (3D Field) http://field.hypermart.net/, (FGIS) http://www.forestpal.com/fgis.html
• NASA World Wind is way way way better than Google Earth! You can easily add your own data, and view everything with 3-D glasses! Not to mention you can look at ANY planet...  Sorry, Windows only for now.

 

Free GIS Data:

 

• USGS DEM’s, imagery, and vector data for the USA and world: http://seamless.usgs.gov/
• Global Land Cover Facility (DEM’s and Imagery for the world): http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml
• Digital Chart of the World (vector data for the world, can also get the same data from seamless): http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
• Steve Savage’s website with GIS data for the Near and Middle East: http://archaeology.asu.edu/Jordan/index.html
• DEM’s and imagery for Arizona: http://aria.arizona.edu/
• 90 meter DEM’s (taken by the Space Shuttle) for the whole world: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/index.asp

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