GRASS: Documentation

Tutorial and Courses

• Companies providing services around GRASS like commercial training

• English:
  • Example scripts for the OSGeo North Carolina educational data set
  • GDF Hannover: GRASS 6 Course material
  • GRASS 6 in a nutshell (Shortcourse, 2005)
  • GRASS 6 WIKI tutorial
  • GRASS 6 tutorial collection (Tutorials for workshops by the Ottawa OSGEO chapter; currently all are GRASS-focussed)
  • GRASS 5.0/5.3 tutorial project, especially Part III of the full tutorial: GRASS in 10 minutes - Quick Intro for Newbies
  • GRASS 5.4/6 Tutorial (translation of Italian Tutorial)
  • GRASS GIS: A Useful Tool for the Mountain Cartographer (Pat Dunlavey, 2002)
  • An Introduction to: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS 4.x) (ISAT Environmental Systems Research Laboratory, 2001)
  • Introduction to GRASS GIS software (2. ed., 1998) in English language (80 pages, online and PS)
  • GRASS 4.2 Seeds Beginner's Tutorial (1995, University of Leicester/Project ASSIST) [Wayback machine copy]
  • Spearfish database description (Postscript, 8 pages)
  • CS3210 Geographic Information Systems - Practical Material (Leics data set)
• Czech:
  • Translation of GDF Hannover: GRASS 6 course script
  • České sdružení uživatelů GISu GRASS (Jáchym Cepicky, online)
• French:
  • French translation of the GRASS 5 tutorial project
  • GRASS 6: précis et concis by M. Neteler, translated by Eve Rousseau (see 'GRASS 6 in a nutshell')
• German:
  • GDF Hannover: GRASS 6 Kursskripte
  • GRASS 5 Tutorial (PDF) in German language (Kurs der GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V.)
  • German: GRASS 5 online short-course in German language (Kurs der GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V.)
• Greek:
  • GRASS GIS και CORINE 2000
• Italian:
  • GRASS 6 Tutorial in Italian language (University of Trento, Italy, online)
  • GRASS 5 Tutorial in Italian language (University of Trento, Italy, online)
  • Italian GRASS Resources
• Korean: GRASS tutorial in Korean language
• Polish: GRASS 5 Tutorial in Polish language (Pawel Netzel 2001, 600kb - PDF)
• Portuguese: GRASS 6 Tutorial in Portuguese language (Carlos G. Grohmann, 11 Mb - PDF)
• Spanish:
  • GRASS 6: Una guía de inicio
  • Introducción a GRASS (Department of Ecology, University of Extremadura)
• Search at CiteSeer
• Google Scholar: GRASS related articles in database
• CiteULike: GRASS related articles in database
• Selected journal papers
• Search for scanned books mentioning GRASS GIS in Google Print

GRASS related

• Stereo-GRASS: describes the basic interaction between the stereo package written by Paul Sheer as well as GRASS GIS

Older resources

• Scanned issues of GRASSClippings, The Journal of Open GIS - Archives
• GRASS Tutorial (1992) (Postscript) from Jochen Albrecht (download corrected 28.Nov.98)
• GRASS 4.0 Beginners Manual (Postscript, 50 pages)
• GRASS 4.0 tutorial from John E. Parks in English language (~ 110 pages, PDF).7

Courses

• GRASS Course on Spatial Analysis from University of Delaware (based on SPEARFISH dataset)
• 12 modules for the lectures conducted in 1999 (Grass4.2) (in Japanese)
• 12 modules for the on-going lectures for year 2000 (Grass5.0) (in Japanese)
• GRASS Course at Washington and Lee University