[GRASS-dev] [SoC] Improve multicriteria analysis tools

[Moritz Lennert]

On 25/03/10 17:05, Jean-Denis Giguere wrote:
> Greetings!
>
>
> My name is Jean-Denis Giguère. I will finish in early May my master
> thesis in Geographic Sciences. While finishing my thesis, I'm teaching
> an introductory course in GIS at Université de Sherbrooke. I give my
> course using several open source software. Grass + Qgis play a major
> role in that stack.
>
> Google Summer of Code offer me a very interesting opportunity to
> contribute back to the GRASS community. I have basic skills in
> programming. Although I'm more a GIS analyst than a programmer, I
> already succeed to produce substantial codes for production use for
> another open source project. My master thesis is about evaluation of
> an atmospheric simulation model related to light pollution. I'm really
> interested by software development processes from initial
> specification phase to deployment, including continuous QA activities,
> documentation, etc.
>
> Maybe because I study and teach in a "Applied Geomatic" department,
> decision making is a critical concern for me. GRASS offers a wonderful
> toolbox for many geospatial analysis. I think improvement of decision
> making tools will make GRASS even more powerful for many users.
>
> There is already an add-on for multicriteria decision analysis [1].
> This add-on is a very interesting start, but I think we should offer
> more options. Firstly, I think MCDA tools are as important for vector
> analysis than for raster. The mcda plugin works only with raster data.
> Also, there are many interesting combination rules.  I think we could
> add at least one other combination rule that would be useful for
> scenario evaluation.
>
> My reflexion is in a early stage, but I would be very glad to improve
> and document it. I would like to know is there is an interest in the
> community  for this kind contribution. I'm interested by both your
> user and dev perspectives.

For us this would be a very interesting improvement from the user side.

Moritz