wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures

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List of new features in GRASS 7

Graphical User Interface

  • wxGUI improved (see here)
  • wxWidgets version of ximgview
  • Tcl/Tk stuff dropped in favour of wxPython

Display modules

  • old display architecture removed including related modules
  • new display architecture based on CAIRO and wxPython
  • ximgview: new

General modules

  • g.cairocomp: new
  • g.ppmtopng: new
  • g.region: new flag to export region bounding box in WMS style

Image processing

  • i.albedo: new
  • i.biomass: new
  • i.cca: supports now much more raster maps for canonical analyses (multi-spectral (8) -> hyper-spectral (thousands)), converted from Fortran style to C-style
  • i.eb.eta: new
  • i.eb.evapfr: new
  • i.eb.h_SEBAL01: new
  • i.eb.soilheatflux: new
  • i.emissivity: new
  • i.evapo.time_integration: new
  • i.latlong: new
  • i.modis.qc: new
  • i.sunhours: new
  • i.vi: new
  • i.landsat.toar: new (from addons)
  • i.landsat.acca: new (from addons)

Raster modules

  • r.colors.out: new
  • r.external.out: new
  • r.cost faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 100x)
  • r.neighbours: added new option to process only marked cells (i.e: selective elevation map improvement)
  • r.walk faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 1000x)
  • r.mapcalc: use pthreads for parsing
  • r.resamp.filter: new - resamples raster map layers using an analytic kernel
  • r.solute.transport: new; New module to compute the solute transport of groundwater in porous media using an implicit finite volume approach
  • r.statistics2: new
  • r.statistics3: new
  • r.uslek: new
  • r.usler: new
  • r.watershed improved from G6.3 to G6.4 to G6.5 to G7: faster, less memory, floating point DEM support, MFD, clean stream extraction from MFD, segmented mode in G7 faster than in G6 by orders of magnitude.
  • r.gwflow/r3.gwflow: Groundwater flow module update
  • Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
  • r.pack, r.unpack: new
  • r.in.lidar: new

Vector modules

  • v.krige: new
  • v.net.distance: new
  • v.net.bridge: new
  • v.net.spanningtree: new
  • v.net.flow: new
  • v.net.connectivity: new
  • v.net.timetable: new
  • v.net.components: new
  • v.net.allpairs: new
  • v.net.centrality: new
  • v.in.ogr faster for polygon-import, cleaner output.
  • v.out.ogr: reversed functionality of -c flag to preserve island by default.
  • Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
  • v.in.lidar: new

Scripts

  • All Bash scripts converted to Python
  • Initialization scripts also based on Python

Libccmath

  • new library for numerical functions

Libdbmi

  • SQLite is now default database driver
  • Added support for OFTDate, OFTTime, OFTDateTime

Libgis

  • WPS support implemented in parser (c, c++, python, shell)
  • Libraster separated out into own library
  • Store metadata in $HOME/.grass7 directory

Libgmath

  • Implementation of blas level 1,2 and 3 functions which are in use by all gmath solver, the gpde library and many modules.
  • ATLAS wrapper for blas level 1 functions (level 2, and 3 are work in progress)

Libosgf

  • WIP in OGSF - feature styling rewrite that will allow to assign custom (e.g. attribute based) style to points AND lines in NVIZ (might be extended to polys and any 3D vectors too).

Libraster

  • Libraster separated out from libgis, refactored

Libvector

  • Large File Support (LFS) added
  • New spatial index, and spatial index kept in file: faster queries (>10x for large vectors), less memory for opening an existing vector
  • Cleaning function 'break polygons' faster, less memory
  • Cleaning function 'snap lines' faster and modifications are minimized: a vertex is snapped to the closest anchor vertex, not to the first anchor vertex found which might not be the closest anchor vertex.
  • Simple Features API/OGR read/write support (ongoing)

Documentation

  • Use Python to generate HTML docs

API

  • Programmer's manual cleanup: http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass7_progman/
  • Improved Python API
    • read/write GRASS rasters to/from NumPy
  • libgis supports the automatic generation of a WPS 1.0.0 process description XML document for each module (c, c++, python, shell)

Portability

  • All shell scripts have been rewritten in Python
  • MS-Windows portability improved, new spawn functions (backported to 6.5 and 6.4), global LFS available by default
  • MacOSX portability improved

Removed modules

Some modules present in GRASS 6 have been removed due to architecture changes or replacements:

  • d.ask, d.colors, d.extend, d.extract, d.frame, d.mapgraph, d.measure, d.menu, d.mon, d.save, d.what.rast, d.what.vect, d.zoom (old display architecture decommissioned)
  • d.histogram: integrated in wxGUI
  • g.ask: use g.findfile
  • g.setproj: use Location Wizard or 'g.proj -c'
  • i.points: new graphical version in wxGUI
  • i.class, i.ortho.photo, i.vpoints (need to be ported; old display architecture decommissioned)
  • raster:
    • r.average, r.median, r.sum merged into r.statistics, r.statistics2, r.statistics3
    • r.bilinear merged into r.resamp.interp
    • r.digit (needs to be ported; old display architecture decommissioned)
    • r.le.patch, r.le.pixel, r.le.setup, r.le.trace: replaced by r.li.*
    • r.terraflow.short (FP version is sufficient)
  • v.digit (new wxPython digitizer)

Renamed options

  • d.rast
    • catlist and vallist options merged into new values option
    • overlay flag inverted to new opaque flag
  • r.fill.dir
    • input -> elevation
    • elevation -> depressionless
  • r.basins.fill
    • c_map -> cnetwork
    • t_map -> tnetwork
    • result -> output
  • r.flow
    • elevin -> elevation
    • aspin -> aspect
    • barin -> barrier
    • flout -> flowline
    • lgout -> flowpath
    • dsout -> density
  • r.li.*
    • map -> input
  • r.out.tiff
    • -t flag -> -w
  • r.topmodel
    • belevation -> basin_elevation
  • r.uslek
    • usle_k -> output
  • r.water.outlet
    • drainage -> input
    • basin -> output
  • r.sim.sediment
    • elevin -> elevation
    • dxin -> dx
    • dyin -> dy
    • detin -> det
    • tranin -> tran
    • tauin -> tau
    • manin -> man
    • maninval -> man_value
  • r.sim.water
    • elevin -> elevation
    • dxin -> dx
    • dyin -> dy
    • rain_val -> rain_value
    • infil -> infil
    • infil_val -> infil_value
    • manin -> man
    • manin_val -> man_value
  • r.colors.stddev
    • input -> map
  • i.atcorr
    • iimg -> input
    • iscl -> range
    • ialt -> elevation
    • ivis -> visibility
    • icnd -> parameters
    • oimg -> output
    • oscl -> rescale
    • input -> map
    • input -> map
  • v.in.wfs
    • wfs -> url
    • input -> map
  • v.rast.stats
    • colprefix -> column_prefix
    • input -> map
  • g.region
    • n -> north
    • s -> south
    • e -> east
    • w -> west
    • t -> top
    • b -> bottom
  • g.pnmcomp
    • background -> bgcolor
  • d.erase
    • color -> bgcolor
    • background -> bgcolor

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