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>The Geographic Information Systems: GRASS HOWTO</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.56"><LINK
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TITLE="What is a GIS?"
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HREF="whatisgis.html"><META
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NAME="KEYWORD"
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CONTENT="GIS"><META
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CONTENT="GRASS"></HEAD
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>The Geographic Information Systems: GRASS HOWTO</A
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CLASS="AUTHOR"
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NAME="AEN4"
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>David A. Hastings</A
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CLASS="AFFILIATION"
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>U. S. Department of Commerce<BR></SPAN
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>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<BR></SPAN
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>National Geophysical Data Center<BR></SPAN
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> Boulder, CO 80303<br>
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USA<br>
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dah@ngdc.noaa.gov<br>
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 1.0</TD
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>13 November 1997</TD
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><TD
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>Revised by: dah</TD
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><TD
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>Initial Release</TD
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> This document describes how to acquire, install and configure a
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powerful scientific public-domain Geographic Information System (GIS):
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the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). It provides
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information on other resources for learning more about GRASS, GIS in
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general, for acquiring data, etc.
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</P
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> This document also encourages the Linux community to consider enhancing
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this software as a major application of UNIX/Linux. ("When will Linux
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become bundled with public domain or Linux Public License 'killer
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apps'"?) For more on this topic, see Section 8 below.
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</P
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><HR></DIV
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><DL
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><DT
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><B
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>1. <A
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HREF="whatisgis.html"
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>What is a GIS?</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>2. <A
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HREF="whatisgrass.html"
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>What Is GRASS?</A
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><DT
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>3. <A
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HREF="history.html"
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>A Brief History of GRASS</A
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><DT
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="managementmodel.html"
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>A Re-Invogorated GRASS Management Model</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="futuremanagement.html"
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>Continued Assessment of Future GRASS Management</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>4. <A
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HREF="requirements.html"
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>System Requirements for GRASS</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>5. <A
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HREF="acquire.html"
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>How to Acquire GRASS</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>6. <A
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HREF="installation.html"
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>How to Get GRASS Running on Your Linux-based Computer.</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>7. <A
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HREF="websupport.html"
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>Web-based Support for GRASS (and for GIS Matters in General)</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>8. <A
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HREF="future.html"
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>The Future of GRASS?</A
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><DT
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>9. <A
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>Copyright Notice, and Notice on Support of this Document</A
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><DD
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><DT
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>9.1. <A
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HREF="copyright.html#AEN284"
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>Copyright notice</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>9.2. <A
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HREF="copyright.html#AEN287"
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>Notice on support of this document</A
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><DT
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>10. <A
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HREF="references.html"
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>References</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>A. <A
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HREF="install413.html"
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>Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.13 Binaries</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>B. <A
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HREF="install415.html"
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>Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.1.5 Binaries</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>C. <A
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HREF="compiling.html"
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>Acquisition/Compilation of GRASS Source Code</A
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>C.1. <A
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>GRASS 4.2 Quick Start</A
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>D. <A
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>Enhancing GRASS</A
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><DT
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>E. <A
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HREF="samples.html"
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>Sample Files</A
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