<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The Geographic Information Systems: GRASS HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.56"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="What is a GIS?" HREF="whatisgis.html"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="GIS"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="GRASS"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >The Geographic Information Systems: GRASS HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >David A. Hastings</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><SPAN CLASS="ORGNAME" >U. S. Department of Commerce<BR></SPAN ><SPAN CLASS="ORGDIV" >National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<BR></SPAN ><SPAN CLASS="ORGDIV" >National Geophysical Data Center<BR></SPAN ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > Boulder, CO 80303<br> USA<br> dah@ngdc.noaa.gov<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >13 November 1997</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dah</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial Release</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><P ></P ><P > This document describes how to acquire, install and configure a powerful scientific public-domain Geographic Information System (GIS): the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). It provides information on other resources for learning more about GRASS, GIS in general, for acquiring data, etc. </P ><P > This document also encourages the Linux community to consider enhancing this software as a major application of UNIX/Linux. ("When will Linux become bundled with public domain or Linux Public License 'killer apps'"?) For more on this topic, see Section 8 below. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="whatisgis.html" >What is a GIS?</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="whatisgrass.html" >What Is GRASS?</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="history.html" >A Brief History of GRASS</A ></DT ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="managementmodel.html" >A Re-Invogorated GRASS Management Model</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="futuremanagement.html" >Continued Assessment of Future GRASS Management</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="requirements.html" >System Requirements for GRASS</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="acquire.html" >How to Acquire GRASS</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="installation.html" >How to Get GRASS Running on Your Linux-based Computer.</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="websupport.html" >Web-based Support for GRASS (and for GIS Matters in General)</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="future.html" >The Future of GRASS?</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="copyright.html" >Copyright Notice, and Notice on Support of this Document</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="copyright.html#AEN284" >Copyright notice</A ></DT ><DT >9.2. <A HREF="copyright.html#AEN287" >Notice on support of this document</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10. <A HREF="references.html" >References</A ></DT ><DT >A. <A HREF="install413.html" >Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.13 Binaries</A ></DT ><DT >B. <A HREF="install415.html" >Acquisition/Installation of GRASS4.1.5 Binaries</A ></DT ><DT >C. <A HREF="compiling.html" >Acquisition/Compilation of GRASS Source Code</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >C.1. <A HREF="quickstart42.html" >GRASS 4.2 Quick Start</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >D. <A HREF="enhancing.html" >Enhancing GRASS</A ></DT ><DT >E. <A HREF="samples.html" >Sample Files</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="whatisgis.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >What is a GIS?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >