GRASS History

GRASS releases

1982 Fort Hood Information System (FHIS) (Vax 11/780)

1983 Installation Geographic Information System (IGIS) (SUN-1 Microcomputer)

1984 GRASS (SUN-1 and Masscomp)

1985 GRASS 1.0, GRASSnet established

1986 GRASS 1.1; receives "Exemplary Systems in Government Award" from URISA

1987 GRASS 2.0; first issue of GRASSClippings, GRASS video narrated by William Shatner (Captain Kirk of Star Trek)

1988 GRASS 3.0; Army R&D Achievement Award (Webster, Goran, Shapiro, Westervelt)

1991 GRASS 4.0; released through Internet - popularity grows with universities, business and government agencies.

1993 GRASS 4.1; Federal Lab Consortium - Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer

1997 GRASS 4.2 Baylor University - The first "GRASS Research Group" takes control of GRASS Development from USACERL. This first new release in 4 years adds numerous programs. Popularity increases with academic community.

1998 GRASS 4.2.1 University of Hannover, Germany, Markus Neteler began working with Baylor Group. He added more than 50 modules, cleaned up the GRASS code, added over 200 bugfixes, and coordinated the incorporation of a new GUI (TclTkGRASS) into the official GRASS release.

1999 GRASS Development Team is formed - Markus Neteler and Bruce Byars coordinate an effort to bring all GRASS development and research into a single group of international scientists.

1999 GRASS 4.3 is released by the GRASS Development Team. The last release of non-floating point GRASS, based on the GRASS 4.2 and 4.2.1 code.

1999 GRASS 5.0 is released by the GRASS Development Team. The first major change in years, this version incorporates floating point calculations into GRASS.

hosting agencies for the GRASS conferences:

1 (1985) Fort Hood, Texas

2 (1986) Fort Lewis, Washington

3 (1987) National Space Technology Lab, Stennis Space Center,

4 (1988) Champaign. USA CERL

5 (1989) Alexandria, Va. Soil Conservation Service

6 (1990) UC Berkeley

7 (1992) Denver, National Park Service

8 (1993) Reston, Va. USGS, SCS, FBI

9 (2000) Como, Italy

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