Historical
Notes
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
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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 GRASS4.2 Baylor University
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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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GRASS Europe pages: http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/HISTORY.html
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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(2000) 2. Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Trento, Italy