Historical
Notes
[GRASS credits]
GRASS releases
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1982 Fort Hood Information
System (FHIS) (Vax 11/780)
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1983 Installation Geographic
Information System (IGIS) (SUN-1 Microcomputer)
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1984 GRASS (SUN-1 and
Masscomp)
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1985 GRASS 1.0, GRASSnet
established
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1986 GRASS 1.1;
receives "Exemplary Systems in Government Award" from URISA
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1987 GRASS 2.0; first
issue of GRASSClippings, GRASS video narrated by William Shatner (Captain
Kirk of Star Trek)
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1988 GRASS 3.0; Army
R&D Achievement Award (Webster, Goran, Shapiro, Westervelt)
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1991 GRASS 4.0; released
through Internet - popularity grows with universities, business and government
agencies.
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1993 GRASS 4.1; Federal
Lab Consortium - Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
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1995 GRASS 4.1.5 port
to Linux: Yung-Tsung Kang, Michigan State University
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1997 GRASS 4.2 Baylor
University - The first "GRASS Research Group" takes control of GRASS Development
from USACERL.
This first new release in 4 years adds numerous programs. Popularity increases
with academic community.
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1998 GRASS4.2.1 Markus
Neteler, Germany
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1999 GRASS5.0 Baylor
University and Markus Neteler
GRASS
4.2.1 development
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- started 1998 by Markus
Neteler in Germany
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- more than 230 improvements
and bugfixes
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- 50 new modules added
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- graphical user interface
"TclTkGRASS" added (Jacques Bouchard)
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[- code cleanup from
leftover files (more than 1000)]
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1999 GRASS Development
Team is formed - Markus Neteler and Bruce Byars coordinate an effort
to bring all GRASS development and research into a single group of
international scientists.
GRASS
4.3 development
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1999 GRASS 4.3 is released
by the GRASS Development Team. The last release of non-floating point GRASS,
based on the GRASS 4.2 and 4.2.1 code.
GRASS
5.0 development
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1999 GRASS 5.0 is released
by the GRASS Development Team. The first major change in years, this version
incorporates floating point calculations into GRASS.
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2001 New GRASS Europe
pages: http://grass.itc.it/
Hosting agencies
for the GRASS conferences:
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1 (1985) Fort Hood,
Texas
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2 (1986) Fort Lewis,
Washington
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3 (1987) National Space
Technology Lab, Stennis Space Center,
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4 (1988) Champaign.
USA CERL
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5 (1989) Alexandria,
Va. Soil Conservation
Service
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6 (1990) UC Berkeley
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7 (1992) Denver, National
Park Service
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8 (1993) Reston, Va.
USGS, SCS, FBI
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(1994) Paris, France
(5TH European GRASS Users Meeting)
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9th Annual GRASS GIS
User's Conference and Exhibition (Sponsered by the Open GIS Foundation,
Hosted by the Soil Conservation Service, March 13-18,'94 Reston Virginia)
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(2000) 1. Italian GRASS
Meeting at Como, Italy
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(2001) 2. Italian GRASS
Meeting at University of Trento, Italy
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(2001) 1. German GRASS
Meeting at University of Mainz
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(2002) 3. Italian GRASS
Meeting at University of Trieste, Italy
GRASS Development Team $Date$