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Grass Gis, Star Trek And Old Video Tape, Peter Heinz Löwe, Janna Neumann, Margret Plank, Frauke Ziedorn, Robert Lozar, James Westervelt, Roger Inman
Grass Gis, Star Trek And Old Video Tape, Peter Heinz Löwe, Janna Neumann, Margret Plank, Frauke Ziedorn, Robert Lozar, James Westervelt, Roger Inman
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
This paper discusses the need for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos can be preserved by multimedia archiving and retrieval services which are currently developed by the library community. This is demonstrated by the reference case of a newly discovered version of the GRASS GIS 1987 promotional video which is being included into the AV-portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Access to the video will be provided upon the release of the web-based portal, allowing for extended …
Building Applications With Foss4g Bricks: Two Examples Of The Use Of Grass Gis Modules As A High-Level “Language” For The Analyses Of Continuous Space Data In Economic Geography, Moritz Lennert
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
In a world where researchers are more and more confronted to large sets of micro- data, new algorithms are constantly developed that have to be translated into usable programs. Modular GIS toolkits such as GRASS GIS offer a middle way between low-level programming approaches and GUI-based desktop GIS. The modules can be seen as elements of a programming language which makes the implementation of algorithms for spatial analysis very easy for researchers. Using two examples of algorithms in economic geography, for estimating regional exports and for determining raster-object neighbourhood matrices, this paper shows how just a few module calls can …