Re: Ftp-sites containing image data/WHERE?

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From: Darrell McCauley
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 12:19

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In article <Bx87FF.ALJ.1@cs.cmu.edu>, mwm+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Maimone) writes:

|> 	GRASS, a public-domain GIS developed by the US Army Corps of
|> Engineers 

and lots of other people (I'm a regular contributor).

|>           comes with some sample remotely-sensed data from Spearfish, North
|> (South?) Dakota, and maybe more.  I've not played with it for a long time,

the official site is moon.cecer.army.mil

|> 	For free software, it's a great starting package, but beware the
|> code, it even *acts* like army code:  if your data gets out of line, the
|> corps dumps on you. ;-)

like he said, he hasn't "played with it for a long time."  GRASS just
keeps getting better and better.  For more information, look for
a file called grasshopper (the case may not be correct) on moon.cecer.army.mil.
It describes two mailing lists devoted to grass usage and development.

Also see comp.infosystems.gis.

-- 
James Darrell McCauley                Dept of Ag Engineering, Purdue Univ
internet: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu     West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1146, USA
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From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Re: Ftp-sites containing image data/WHERE?
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