[GRASS-user] he ISPRS Student Consortium interviews the GRASS-GIS user mailing list

Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de
Wed Jan 9 20:16:41 EST 2008 

Just a reminder... for the "interview" ;-)

Thank you,

Nikos

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 01:26 +0100,
nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
> Dear members of the GRASS-GIS user mailing list,
> 
> please accept my apologies for abusing this list by sending
> a (very) long post.
> 
> Herewith you are cordially invited to participate and share
> some of your experiences using GRASS-GIS through an
> "open"-interview.
> 
> If you like the idea you are kindly requested to take some
> time, read carefully and, if you want, answer to some or to
> all of the questions.
> 
> The deadline is Sunday the 13th of January 2008 at 12:00
> CET
> 
> 
> Kind regards from the "ISPRS Student Consortium"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (* Responsible for the compilation -- and the one to blame
> if this doesn't work -- is the sender of this e-mail and
> not the ISPRS Student Consortium!)
> 
> 
> Here it goes...
> 
> ============================================================================================
> The ISPRS Student Consortium interviews the GRASS-GIS user
> mailing list
> 
> [ An open-interview (like open-source) with developers and
> users of the GRASS-GIS software ]
> ============================================================================================
> 
> 
> 
> What is this about?
> -------------------
> 
> It is about an interview with users and developers of the
> famous open-source GRASS-GIS software [1]. 
> 
> This interview is "open" for all members of the GRASS-user
> mailing list [2] as it is directed to the mailing list and
> not to a specific person.
> 
> It is rather an attempt to acquire some first impressions
> about GRASS-GIS, about how the GRASS user list interacts
> and its status in the field of geospatial applications at a
> global scale.
> 
> 
> 
> What are the rules?
> -------------------
> 
> * There are no rules! You might even want to answer
> collectively. Just try to give as much as possible short
> answers.
> 
> * The questions can be answered selectively (which means
> only some of them or even none!)
> 
> 
> 
> Who is questioning?
> -------------------
> 
> The Student consortium (SC) [3] of the International
> Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) [4].
> 
> The SC acts within ISPRS Working Group VI/5 [5] and
> represents the main student and researcher group, who share
> the same interests in photogrammetry, remote sensing and
> spatial information sciences. Its purpose is to serve as an
> information exchange platform and organise student-specific
> events.
> 
> The SC Newsletters [6] aim to inform SC members and other
> people interested in the SC about its members' activities,
> their research, international projects and more about
> on-going geospatial applications at global scale.
> 
> 
> 
> Why?
> ----
> 
> In its first attempt to dedicate a part of the Newsletter
> to the open-source [7] sector in the field of geospatial
> applications, the SC is interviewing the GRASS user mailing
> list to learn about the GRASS-GIS application itself and
> its community based concept.
> 
> More open-source tools handling geospatial data will be
> covered in the future through various sources of
> information spreaded in the internet.
> 
> 
> 
> Who is questioned?
> ------------------
> 
> The GRASS-user mailing list.
> 
> Taken from its official webpage, GRASS (Geographic
> Resources Analysis System) [8] is an open-source Geographic
> Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data
> management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps
> production, spatial modelling and visualization. GRASS is
> currently used in academic and commercial settings around
> the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and
> environmental consulting companies.
> 
> 
> 
> What will be the result of this "open-interview"?
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> If successful, the answers will be summarized and published
> in the upcoming SC Newsletter (planned within January
> 2008).
> 
> To ensure the integrity of the original statements, the
> final text will be reviewed before publishing from both the
> ISPRS SC Newsletter editorial board and the GRASS user
> mailing list.
> 
> 
> Questions
> ---------
> 
> 1. Why should a student choose GRASS to do his/her GIS
> homework?
> 
> 
> 2. Why is there a widespread belief that GRASS, being an
> open-source software, is targeted to highly specialised
> users and developers?
> 
> 
> 3. There are many introductive tutorials and practical
> examples upon how to use GRASS. Yet it seems difficult to
> begin. How do you recommend to start using GRASS?
> 
> 
> 4. Is GRASS officially recognized by the Remote Sensing
> user community? Can it be cited in peer-reviewed scientific
> publications?
> 
> 
> 5. What is the potential of GRASS with respect to new
> technologies like SAR and LIDAR data?
> 
> 
> 6. One typical difficulty, when working with various GIS
> and/ or Remote Sensing software, is the transformation from
> one file format to another (e.g. from ESRI Grid to GeoTIFF,
> from ASCII vector to SVG)
> 
>    a. Which file formats, for both raster and vector data
> models, can handle GRASS?
> 
>    b. What are your performance experiences using GRASS
> with respect to the file format conversion? (i.e. speed,
> data and  metadata integrity)
> 
> 
> 7. Are there any other important characteristics of
> GRASS-GIS that you would like to address/ point-out for
> beginners?
> 
> 
> 
> We hope that you will welcome our scientific curiousity and
> its experimental spirit through this "open-interview". 
> 
> 
> Thank you all in advance,
> 
> ISPRS SC
> 
> 
> 
> References
> ----------
> 
> [1]	GRASS-GIS
> 
> 	http://grass.osgeo.org/
> 
> 
> [2]	GRASS user mailing list
> 
> 	http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
> 
> 
> [3]	ISPRS Student Consortium
>  
> 	http://www.studentconsortium.isprs.org/
> 
> 
> [4]	ISPRS
> 
> 	http://www.isprs.org
> 
> 
> [5]	ISPRS, Commission VI: Education and Outreach, Working
> Group 5: Promotion of the Profession to Students,
> 
> 	http://www.commission6.isprs.org/wg5/
> 
> 
> [6]	ISPRS SC Newsletter
> 
> 	http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/~skocaman/SC/newsletter.html
> 
> 
> [7]	Definition of Open source
> 
> 	http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
> 
> 	
> ---
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Nikos Alexandris
.
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Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
.
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