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GRASS GIS
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GRASS GIS
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free and open source · GPL (>=v2) · no warranty
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- Analysis
- Features include raster, 3D voxel, terrain, hydrological, vector, temporal, image-processing and spatial-statistics tools.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- GRASS is used by scientists, developers, researchers, government agencies, universities and private companies.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Containers
- Official Docker images are published as osgeo/grass-gis with Alpine, Debian and Ubuntu variants.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Data formats
- GRASS supports nearly all common GIS file formats through the GDAL-OGR library.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Extensions
- The official GRASS Addons repository has more than 300 extensions.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- GIS modules
- GRASS contains over 500 modules for processing and rendering geographic data.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Governance
- The Project Steering Committee guides direction, budget and governance under OSGeo, with NumFOCUS fiscal sponsorship.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- GRASS integrates with QGIS and R, and supports PostgreSQL and SQLite database interfaces.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- GRASS provides GUI, command-line, C API, Python, Jupyter Notebook and WPS interfaces.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- macOS security
- The prebuilt macOS applications are signed and notarized.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- GRASS is a computational engine for raster, vector and geospatial processing, including terrain, ecosystem, hydrology, data management and imagery work.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Security
- The roadmap commits to vulnerability detection tools, fixing reported security issues and maintaining CI workflows for standards compliance.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- GRASS offers worldwide community support plus commercial consulting, training and custom-development services.grass.osgeo.org · read 1 Oct 2026
