Glossary for Geospatial Science

GRASS:� Geographic Resources Analysis Support System.� A public domain GIS system developed at the U.S. Army�s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Urbana, Illinois.� It is now managed by the GRASS Development Team.� The system was designed for minicomputers and has since been implemented on various microcomputers.� It is a raster-based system that can interface to vector data sets for data preparation and import/export.