<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>In addition to Grass, there are several image processing apps that may be of assistance:<BR>
<BR>
ossim: <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/ossim">http://www.osgeo.org/ossim</a><BR>
<BR>
mbsystem: <a href="http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/">http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/</a><BR>
<BR>
rat: <a href="http://radartools.berlios.de/">http://radartools.berlios.de/</a><BR>
<BR>
Bruce<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On 18/07/10 7:15 AM, "Markus Neteler" <<a href="neteler@osgeo.org">neteler@osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, <<a href="cruiserad@comcast.net">cruiserad@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<BR>
> am in a quandry,<BR>
><BR>
> have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various<BR>
> purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII<BR>
> tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a<BR>
> datset.<BR>
> 1. have tried GVsig and quantumGIS, but neither seems to like the ascii<BR>
> tab-delimited format.<BR>
> 2. Quantum does not like the Mid-mif files i have, and it appears GVsig does<BR>
> not take the format<BR>
><BR>
> Everything open-source GIS seems to want CSV or shapefiles.<BR>
<BR>
Find here a dedicated Wiki page for the GRASS software:<BR>
<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Import_XYZ">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Import_XYZ</a><BR>
<BR>
GRASS 6.4+ can meanwhile deal with extremely large data sets.<BR>
<BR>
Markus<BR>
_______________________________________________<BR>
Discuss mailing list<BR>
<a href="Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><BR>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
</BODY>
</HTML>