[kepler-dev] Kepler vs Grass

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Dan Higgins writes:
 > Bertram,
 >     We have been looking a Grass (and other GIS systems) in particular 
 > as part of the BEAM GARP/ENM work (and I am the main developer for 
 > this). Due to its size, we (at least temporarily) decided not to try 
 > integrating all of Grass. For the GARP workflows we needed only a few 
 > Grass functions. So, Jianting at UNM/LTER pulled a few routines out of 
 > Grass and turned them into actors (Convex Hull, Rasterization,
etc). 

yep -- that sounds somewhat familiar, now that I think about it  ;-)

 > We 
 > also needed some import of GIS files, so the GDAL module (part of Grass) 
 > has also been turned into an actor.  We also created some pure java GIS 
 > actors for manipulating raster grids, etc. A image display system 
 > (ImageJ) was also used for displaying various spatial data. So there are 
 > GIS actors that already exist and we are planning on adding others as 
 > specifically needed. [Also, Efrat has/is adding a number of GIS features 
 > through web services.]

yep -- again .. 

 > 
 >     Examples of many of these existing features can be found by clicking 
 > on the "ENM(GARP) Workflows" link which is the first link on the current 
 > Kepler intro screen. Take a look at the "Rescaling Example" or the 
 > "Convex Hull Operations" example.

thanks! I've been trusting too much in Google I guess. The only thing
that I saw (at first sight) was an older module by Chad ... 

cheers

Bertram

 > 
 > Dan
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Bertram Ludaescher wrote:
 > 
 > >Chad et al:
 > >
 > >Just wanted to double check what the status/plans are for Kepler/Grass
 > >interfacing?  There is quite some popular demand here on interfacing
 > >with Grass and I noticed that Chad had done some initial actors.
 > >
 > >Are there any example workflows? Is someone actively working on it (or
 > >will be so in the near future?)
 > >
 > >thanks
 > >
 > >Bertram
 > >
 > >
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