GRASS GIS 6.0 Author List
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$Date: 2005/10/26 01:23:20 $
Many people have contributed to the GRASS GIS. Without any one of them,
GRASS would not exist in its current form.
The authors of the individual programs are listed at the end of their
manual page in the GRASS users manuals or in the source code. However,
numerous authors of bug fixes and enhancements as well as people who
have been working on coordination, integration, translation,
documentation and testing are not mentioned. Therefore, this
page is an attempt to acknowledge those who contributed to GRASS
development.
Please allow us to extend our most cordial thanks to all of you. If you
contributed to GRASS at any point during its existence, please let us
know your name and e-mail address so we can add your name.
Active parts of the program have authors dating back to GRASS's
inception in 1982. Please check the GRASS 1.x - 5.4 credits list at:
http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasscredits.html
GRASS 6.0 is made up of entirely new code for much of the vector and
database management subsystems. The raster, display, and projection
subsystems are largely directly inherited from GRASS 5.4 without change.
The core GIS, GUI, and build subsystems are a hybrid of old and new code.
Thus we must also thank and credit the members of the 5.0 core
development team, listed below, as most are still active in the
project and GRASS 6.0 owes much of itself to the generosity of
their bright minds.
Email addresses below have been spam-proofed to protect the innocent;
add "@" and "." as needed.
GRASS 5.7/6.0: Primary authors of new source code
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(work in progress: please complete and correct)
Institutions:
ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Providing web structure and various mailing lists
Intevation GmbH, Germany Providing CVS and Request Tracker
Baylor University, USA Providing users mailing list
VECTOR
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: vector engine core developer
- David D Gray: vector engine contributions
- modules: see individual authors
DBMI
- based on original code from GRASS 5.0 (developer unknown, CERL?)
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: core developer of 5.7 enhancements
- Alexander Shevlakov: drivers and sqlp contributions
DGLib: vector networking
- Roberto Micarelli <mi ro iol it>: LIBDGL - graph library for vector
network analysis
FORMS library
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: core developer
RASTER
- Modules: see 5.4 authors below + individual modules
- Integration of raster modules: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
- Large file support (LFS): Glynn Clements <glynn gclements.plus.com>
3D RASTER
- Grid3D library by CERL and GMSL/University of Illinois
- Jaro Hofierka <hofierka geomodel sk>
- Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity ncsu edu>
- Alfonso Vitti <alfonso vitti ing unitn it>: important bugfixes
PROJ
- Integrated by Paul Kelly <paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk>
NEW DOCUMENTATION:
- existing documentation: see 5.4 authors below + individual modules
- Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
- Otto Dassau <dassau gdf-hannover de>
- M. Hamish Bowman <hbowman albers otago ac nz>
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>
WEB SITE
- Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>: setup and maintenance since 1998,
cron jobs for auto-update, PHP migration, mailing lists, etc
- Scott Mitchell <smitch mac com>: contributions
- M. Hamish Bowman <hbowman albers otago ac nz>: contributions
GRASS 6.0 major project contributers
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PROJECT INTEGRATION
- Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>: GRASS project coordination
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: driving force for vector enhancements
- M. Hamish Bowman <hbowman albers otago ac nz>: General sanitation
- Bernhard Reiter <bernhard intevation de>: Maintain CVS, Bug-tracker
BUILD SYSTEM
- Eric Mitchell: core development
- Paul Kelly <paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk>: Fine tuning
- Glynn Clements <glynn gclements plus com>: Assistance and advice
DOCUMENTATION
- New docs engine: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
- Programming docs/doxygen: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>, Paolo Armani
GUI
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: primary author of d.m and v.digit
- Michael Barton <michael.barton asu edu>: tcltkgrass menu system
partial rewrite and integration into d.m
- Multibyte FreeType Font Support: www.FOSS4G.org team
INTERNATIONALIZATION
- Integration: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>, based on www.FOSS4G.org initiative:
(S. Masumoto, V. Raghavan, S. Nonogaki, M. Neteler, T. Nemoto, T. Mori, M. Niwa,
A. Hagiwara, and N. Hattori)
- Multi-byte text support: FOSS4G members, see http://www.foss4g.org
- Translators: There are as many to thank as there are languages to speak
- Czech: Martin Landa, Jachym Cepicky, Michal Bil, Radim Blazek
- German: Stephan Holl
- French: Emmanuel Saracco, Daniel Calvelo
- Italian: Maurizio Napolitano
- Japanese: Susumu Nonogaki
- Russian: Alexander Shevlakov
- Slovenia: Miha Staut
- Spanish: el bueno (manzano_jm)
- Vietnamese: Tran Van Anh
NVIZ
- Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: updated vector and 3D vector support
- Bob Covill <bcovill tekmap ns ca>: Core enhancements
- Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity ncsu edu>: 3D volume support supervision
- Jaro Hofierka <hofierka geomodel sk>: 3D volume support supervision
- Tomas Paudits: 3D volume support implementation
SPECIAL THANKS:
- Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam pobox com>: for writing and maintaining the
essential GDAL and OGR libraries as well as PROJ4, GeoTIFF, etc etc.
He plays a key role in (Free) GIS interoperability.
In addition, we must thank those that have packaged GRASS 6.0 into the
easy to install binary packages which are at the forefront of the users'
software experience.
Linux (generic): Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
Linux (Debian): DebianGIS Project <pkg-grass-devel lists.alioth.debian.org>
Linux (SuSE): GDF Hannover bR, see http://www.gdf-hannover.de
Mac OS/X: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti bologna enea it>
Jeshua Lacock <jeshua OpenOSX com>
MS-Windows/Cygwin: Huidae Cho <grass4u gmail com>
GRASS GIS 5.4 Author List
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Please check additionally the GRASS 1.x-5.x credits list at:
http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasscredits.html
While it is impossible for us to give credit to everyone (past
and present) who has contributed to GRASS, the following is the
incomplete official list for GRASS 5.0-5.4:
Institutions:
ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Providing web structure and various mailing lists
Intevation GmbH, Germany Providing CVS and Request Tracker
Baylor University, USA Providing users mailing list
GRASS 5 Core Team (most have CVS write access):
Michael Barton <michael.barton asu edu> (tcltkgrass menus)
Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand nhh.no> ("R" statistical language
support)
Radim Blazek <blazek itc.it> (DBMS support, ps.map, d.dm)
Hamish Bowman <hamish_nospam yahoo.com> (ps.map,display,rasters, ...)
Huidae Cho <grass4u gmail.com> (FreeType,r.topmodel,r.topidx, ..)
Glynn Clements <glynn gclements.plus.com> (Code portability, ...)
Bob Covill <bcovill tekmap.ns.ca> (NVIZ export formats,
r.in|out.bin)
Jaro Hofierka <hofierka geomodel.sk> (NVIZ port, grid3D and related)
Paul Kelly <paul-grass stjohnspoint.co.uk> (PROJ4, datum trafo, IRIX ...)
Lubos Mitas <lmitas ncsa.uiuc.edu> (multivariate spline
interpolation (RST)
and erosion modeling)
Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu> (interpolation modules, NVIZ,
G3D, erosion modelling)
Eric G. Miller <egm2 jps.net> (sites format, new autoconf
system, bugfixes etc.)
Roger S. Miller <rgrmill rt66.com> (raster modules, r.drain etc.)
Markus Neteler <neteler itc.it> (GRASS 5 coordination, this&that ...)
Bernhard Reiter <bernhard intevation.de> (License, CVS, Bugfixes, RT)
Alexander Shevlakov <sixote yahoo.com> (PostgreSQL/GRASS interface)
Mike Thomas <miketh brisbane.paradigmgeo.com> (generic Windows driver)
Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan intevation.de> (XML-support,
Module descriptions)
Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam pobox.com> (GDAL, SHAPE implementation,
new GRASS I/O library)
Michel Wurtz <mw teledetection.fr> (ESRI E00 support)
Former programmers (GRASS 5.0):
Andrea Aime <aaime comune.modena.it> (raster/vector modules)
Carl Anderson <candrsn mindspring.com> (XDRIVER support)
Malcolm Blue <mblue nb.sympatico.ca> (Windows NT/Cygnus port)
Jacques Bouchard <bouchard onera.fr> (tcltkgrass, bugfixes)
David D. Gray <ddgray armadce.demon.co.uk>(Vector, SQL support)
Justin Hickey <jhickey hpcc.nectec.or.th> (GRASS initialization,
new env var handling, SGI)
John Huddleston <jhudd lamar.colostate.edu> (Windows NT/Cygnus port)
Bill Hughes <bhughes grasshoppernet.com> (64bit compliance)
Andreas Lange <Andreas.Lange Rhein-Main.de> (SGI/Irix compliance,
Proj/Datum support)
Brook Milligan <brook trillium.NMSU.Edu> (initial autoconf implementation)
Phisan Santitamnont <fsvpss eng.chula.ac.th> (initial Linux compilation
of 4.2.1, bugfixes)
Significant contributions (very incomplete, please add):
Angus Carr <apcarr flash.lakeheadu.ca> (ERDAS LAN)
Eric Mitchell <emitchell altaira com> (new 5.1 Makefile system)
Pierre de Mouveaux <pierre polaris-technologies.com> (NVIZ, d.layers)
Job Spijker <spijker geo uu.nl> (v.bubble)
Laura Toma <ltoma bowdoin edu> (r.terraflow)
Philip Warner <pjw rhyme com.au> (NVIZ code cleanup)
Additional project contributions (very incomplete, please add):
Florian Goessmann <florian wallweg39 de>
Scott Mitchell <smitch mac com>
Martin Wegmann <wegmann biozentrum uni-wuerzburg.de>
Former User support (GRASS 5.0):
Edward Zarecky <Edward_Zarecky baylor.edu> (user support)
Lisa Zygo <Lisa_Zygo baylor.edu> (user support, GRASS manuals)
Former GRASS 4.2.1 development:
University of Hannover/Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
Markus Neteler <neteler geog.uni-hannover.de> (GRASS 4.2.1 coordination)
Former GRASS 4.2.0 development:
Center for Applied Geographic and Spatial Research
Bruce Byars <Bruce_Byars baylor.edu> (GRASS 4.2.0 coordination)
Former GRASS 4 development (1984 to 1995):
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL)
Jim Westervelt, Michael Shapiro, Chris Rewerts, Robert Lozar, ...
See: http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasscredits.html
Former Institutions
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu> (interpolation modules, NVIZ, G3D)
William Brown <brown gis.uiuc.edu> (libraries, interpolation modules,
NVIZ, G3D)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
Lubos Mitas (multivariate spline interpolation (RST) and erosion modeling)
- High Performance Computing Center, Thailand
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Bangkok, Thailand
The Official home of GRASS is:
GRASS Development Team
M. Neteler
ITC-irst
SSI/MPA
Via Sommarive, 18
38050 Trento (Povo)
email: neteler itc.it
Internet: http://grass.itc.it/ (main site)
http://grass.baylor.edu/ (user mailing list and mirror)
http://grass.ibiblio.org/ (mirror)
with a worldwide distribution network.
