| 56 | Do you use USGS data regularly?? Keep an eye on the user-convenience and caching improvements coming to r.in.usgs, an addon for downloading and importing USGS data such as NED (elevation) and NAIP (imagery) into #GRASSGIS |
| 57 | |
| 58 | https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/r.in.usgs.html |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - NCSU course: |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Geospatial Computing and Simulations course at @NCSUgeospatial with a lot of GRASS-related content - an open education resource @Geo4All_: |
| 63 | |
| 64 | https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geospatial-simulations-course/topics/index.html |
| 65 | |
| 66 | (use this img: https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geospatial-modeling-course/img/grass_index.png) |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - General list of GRASS courses/materials by NCSU: |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Have a look at the impressive list of #GRASSGIS courses @NCSUgeospatial: |
| 71 | https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/geoforall/courses.html |
| 72 | All materials are online and open. Enjoy!! |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - Invite folks to test release branch 8 and complete the wiki |
| 75 | |
| 76 | We have grass 8 branch! Have you tested it? Which feature you like most? Help us fill in the new features page: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8/NewFeatures80 |
| 77 | |
| 78 | We happily welcome text snippets and screenshots to highlight the new and exciting changes that will come with GRASS 8 as well as bug fixing, improvements, new modules, library changes, etc. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | - GRASS + UAV + SDM for Rare Plant Monitoring |
| 81 | |
| 82 | A GRASS GIS hourly solar insolation model was calculated using a 1 m resolution LiDAR derived DEM to find the time window with the least shadow along the cliff face in order to flight the UAV over it. Cool approach ah? |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Have a look at the full paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/5/4/110 |
| 85 | |
| 86 | (img link: https://www.mdpi.com/drones/drones-05-00110/article_deploy/html/images/drones-05-00110-g007.png) |