CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "GRASS"
message: "If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file."
version: 8.4.2
abstract: "GRASS, Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, is a powerful computational engine for raster, vector, and geospatial processing. It supports terrain and ecosystem modeling, hydrology, data management, and imagery processing. With a built-in temporal framework and Python API, it enables advanced time series analysis and rapid geospatial programming, optimized for large-scale analysis on various hardware configurations."
type: software
authors:
  - name: "GRASS Development Team"
    website: "https://grass.osgeo.org"
  - given-names: Martin
    family-names: Landa
    affiliation: "Czech Technical University in Prague"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-3542"
  - given-names: Markus
    family-names: Neteler
    affiliation: "mundialis GmbH & Co. KG"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1916-1966"
  - given-names: Markus
    family-names: Metz
    email: "metz@mundialis.de"
    affiliation: "mundialis GmbH & Co. KG"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4038-8754"
  - given-names: Anna
    family-names: Petrášová
    affiliation: "North Carolina State University"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5120-5538"
  - given-names: Vaclav
    family-names: Petráš
    affiliation: "North Carolina State University"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5566-9236"
  - given-names: Glynn
    family-names: Clements
    email: "glynn@gclements.plus.com"
  - given-names: Tomáš
    family-names: Zigo
    email: "tomas.zigo@slovanet.sk"
  - given-names: Nicklas
    family-names: Larsson
    email: "n_larsson@yahoo.com"
  - given-names: Linda
    family-names: Kladivová
    email: "L.Kladivova@seznam.cz"
  - given-names: Caitlin
    family-names: Haedrich
    email: "caitlin.haedrich@gmail.com"
    affiliation: "North Carolina State University"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4373-5691"
  - given-names: Stefan
    family-names: Blumentrath
    email: "stefan.blumentrath@gmx.de"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6675-1331"
  - given-names: Veronica
    family-names: Andreo
    email: "veroandreo@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4633-2161"
  - given-names: Huidae
    family-names: Cho
    email: "grass4u@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1878-1274"
  - given-names: Sören
    family-names: Gebbert
    email: "soerengebbert@gmail.com"
  - given-names: Māris
    family-names: Nartišs
    email: "maris.gis@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-740X"
  - given-names: Helmut
    family-names: Kudrnovsky
    email: "hellik@web.de"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6622-7169"
  - given-names: Luca
    family-names: Delucchi
    affiliation: "Fondazione Edmund Mach"
    email: "lucadeluge@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0493-3516"
  - given-names: Pietro
    family-names: Zambelli
    email: "peter.zamb@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6187-3572"
  - given-names: Moritz
    family-names: Lennert
    email: "mlennert@club.worldonline.be"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2870-4515"
  - given-names: Helena
    family-names: Mitášová
    affiliation: "North Carolina State University"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6906-3398"
  - given-names: Yann
    family-names: Chemin
    email: "dr.yann.chemin@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9232-5512"
  - given-names: Ondřej
    family-names: Pešek
    email: "pesej.ondrek@gmail.com"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2363-8002"
  - given-names: Michael
    family-names: Barton
    email: "michael.barton@asu.edu"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2561-1927"
  - given-names: Carmen
    family-names: Tawalika
    email: "tawalika@mundialis.de"
  - given-names: Denis
    family-names: Ovsienko
    email: "denis@ovsienko.info"
  - given-names: Hamish
    family-names: Bowman
    email: "hamish_b@yahoo.com"
repository-code: "https://github.com/OSGeo/grass"
license: "GPL-2.0-or-later"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.5176030"
date-released: 2025-11-27
keywords:
  - "GIS"
  - "geospatial"
  - "geoprocessing"
  - "geocomputation engine"
  - "spatial analysis"
  - "data management"
  - "visualization"
  - "open source"
  - "open science"
  - "free software"