GRASS GIS is a free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
Community Meeting to celebrate the GRASS GIS 40th birthday!! The GRASS GIS Community Meeting was held in the Czech Republic from June 2 to 6 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The meeting was a milestone event
What’s new in a nutshell The GRASS GIS 7.8.8 release provides more than 80 improvements and fixes compared to the 7.8.7 release. This release is expected to be the last 7.8 release. Development continues with GRASS GIS 8.x. The overview of features
What’s new in a nutshell The GRASS GIS 8.3.0 release provides more than 360 changes compared to the 8.2 branch. This new minor release brings in many fixes and improvements in GRASS GIS modules and the graphical user interface (GUI) which now has th
The r.mblend experience In 2017, I had the opportunity to implement a DEM blending algorithm that had been theorised earlier by my colleague João Leitão. It was somewhat natural to develop it as a GRASS add-on, since I have long relied on it for map alge
Users are encouraged to migrate to the succesor rgrass package The R package rgrass7 interfacing R and GRASS GIS will be removed from active availability on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) during October 2023; it will be archived on CRAN. This
We are organizing a Community Meeting to celebrate GRASS GIS 40th birthday!! The GRASS GIS Community Meeting with users, supporters, contributors, power users and developers will take place from June 2 to 6, 2023, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering from
What’s new in a nutshell The GRASS GIS 8.2.1 release offers over 80 improvements and bug fixes compared to the previous release, 8.2.0. The update includes a range of enhancements to the software’s modules and graphical user interface. Some no
What’s new in a nutshell The 8.2.0 release of GRASS GIS is now available with results from the GSoC 2021 and many other additions. A new grass.jupyter package is now included for interacting with Jupyter notebooks. Single window graphical user inter
Caitlin’s path in her own words Enhancing GRASS GIS integration with Jupyter Notebooks I began contributing to GRASS GIS last year during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021. As a second-year doctoral student at North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Linda’s path in her own words From enhancing first time user experience to Single-Window in GRASS GIS I started contributing to GRASS GIS in the summer of 2020 as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project “Creation of a new GRASS GIS s
What’s new in a nutshell This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 8.0 series. The most important changes include the removal of unneeded dynamic loading of GDAL libraries, and a fix in the quantile algorithm. Full list of changes and new feature
New video tutorials now available for GRASS GIS version 8 Announcing a new series of publicly available YouTube video tutorials for GRASS 8. These tutorials, originally created for a GIS course at San Diego State University titled “ANTH 562 Computat
What’s new in a nutshell This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 8.0 series. The most important changes include a bugfix to avoid compilation breakage under certain circumstances. Also, quantile computation was fixed to match the one used in Py
What’s new in a nutshell As a follow-up to the previous GRASS GIS 7.8.6 we have published the new release GRASS GIS 7.8.7 with more than 40 fixes mostly focused on the addon installation module g.extension and Python 3.10 related errors in the grap
After more than 3 years of development the new stable release GRASS GIS 8.0 is available. Efforts were concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphi
