Changes between Version 26 and Version 27 of Release/7.0.0-News

Timestamp:

Feb 21, 2015, 3:22:08 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

neteler

Comment:

updated

Release/7.0.0-News

@@ -40 +40 @@
 ===== New Display modules =====
 
-Summary: New portable display system, used in the graphical user interface but as usual also with command line support. Histogram support in legends added and much more.
+''Summary: New portable display system, used in the graphical user interface but as usual also with command line support. Histogram support in legends added and much more.''
 
  * G7:ximgview: new - View BMP images from the PNG driver. 
@@ -51 +51 @@
 ===== New GUI modules =====
 
-Summary: The existing graphical user interface has been improved and extended with new functionality not easily found in other GIS:
+''Summary: The existing graphical user interface has been improved and extended with new functionality not easily found in other GIS:''
 
  * G7:g.gui.animation: new - Animating of raster and vector time series 
@@ -63 +63 @@
 ===== New Image Processing =====
 
-Summary: Many new modules for creation of albedo, emissivity and vegetation index maps, TOA calibration, biomass growth and evapotranspiration estimation, image classification, hierarchical image segmentation,  pansharpening, cloud detection in LANDSAT data, MODIS QA bitpattern management, graphical tool for Ground Control Points for geocoding imagery, Tasseled-Cap transform support for Landsat 8 and MODIS. Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled.
-
- * G7:i.albedo: new - Computes broad band albedo from surface reflectance. 
+''Summary: Many new modules for creation of albedo, emissivity and vegetation index maps, TOA calibration, biomass growth and evapotranspiration estimation, image classification, hierarchical image segmentation,  pansharpening, cloud detection in LANDSAT data, MODIS QA bitpattern management, graphical tool for Ground Control Points for geocoding imagery, Tasseled-Cap transform support for Landsat 8 and MODIS.''
+
+ * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
+ * G7:i.albedo: new - Computes broad band albedo from surface reflectance
  * G7:i.aster.toar: new - Transforms calibrated digital number of ASTER data to top-of-atmosphere radiance, reflectance and temperature
  * G7:i.biomass: new  - Computes biomass growth, precursor of crop yield calculation
@@ -79 +80 @@
  * G7:i.evapo.pt: new - Computes evapotranspiration calculation Prestley and Taylor formulation, 1972. 
  * G7:i.evapo.time: new - Computes temporal integration of satellite ET actual (ETa) following the daily ET reference (ETo) from meteorological station(s).
- * G7:i.latlong: new
  * G7:i.pansharpen: new - Brovey/PCA/IHS transform to merge multispectral and high-res panchromatic channels, replaces removed i.fusion.brovey
  * G7:i.landsat.toar: new, transforms calibrated digital number of LANDSAT data to top-of-atmosphere radiance, reflectance and temperature
  * G7:i.landsat.acca: new, Automated Cloud-Cover Assessment (ACCA) Algorithm
- * G7:i.modis.qc: new - apply Quality Control nitpattern map easily
+ * G7:i.modis.qc: new - apply Quality Control bitpattern map easily
  * G7:i.segment: new, identifies segments (objects) from imagery data. Supports hierarchical segmentation
  * G7:i.vi: new, calculation of vegetation indices
@@ -90 +90 @@
 ===== New Raster modules =====
 
+''Summary: direct output to standard GIS raster formats implemented, new LAS LiDAR point binning using univariate statistics, support for WMS and WMTS, new multiple linear regression from raster maps (results conformant with R), resampling using an analytic kernel, and much more. Speed gain for viewsheds, cost surfaces, raster import, geomorphometry, watershed calculation.''
+
  * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
  * G7:r.colors.out: new - Exports the color table associated with a raster map. 
  * G7:r.external.out: new - Defines raster output format utilizing GDAL library. 
- * G7:r.in.lidar: new  - Create a raster map from LAS LiDAR points using univariate statistics. 
- * G7:r.in.wms: new implementation - Downloads and imports data from WMS server; + WMTS and NASA OnEarth support
+ * G7:r.in.lidar: new  - Create a raster map from LAS LiDAR points using univariate statistics.
+ * G7:r.in.wms: new implementation - Downloads and imports data from WMS server; + WMTS and NASA OnEarth support.
+ * G7:r.latlong: new - Creates a latitude/longitude raster map. 
  * G7:r.regression.multi: new - Calculates multiple linear regression from raster maps. 
  * G7:r.resamp.filter: new - resamples raster map layers using an analytic kernel
@@ -108 +111 @@
 ===== New Vector modules =====
 
-Summary: The topology engine has been improved in speed and precision. LAS LiDAR point clouds support added, new PostGIS 2 interface, various vector networking improvements, notable speed improvements for vector import, generalization, kernel density calculation, intersection, vector grid and hexagon calculation, automated line densification in reprojection for error minimization, optionally constraining of random points to selected polygons, vector area skeletonizer added and much more.
+''Summary: The topology engine has been improved in speed and precision. LAS LiDAR point clouds support added, new PostGIS 2 interface, various vector networking improvements, notable speed improvements for vector import, generalization, kernel density calculation, intersection, vector grid and hexagon calculation, automated line vertex densification in reprojection for error minimization, optionally constraining of random points to selected polygons, vector area skeletonizer added and much more.''
 
  * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
@@ -119 +122 @@
 ===== New Raster3D modules =====
 
-Summary: New modules for raster3D color table management, cleanup of the caching system.
+''Summary: New modules for raster3D color table management, cleanup of the caching system.''
 
  * G7:r3.colors: new - Creates/modifies the color table associated with a 3D raster map. 
@@ -130 +133 @@
 ===== New Temporal GIS modules =====
 
-A [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/temporalintro.html new temporal GRASS GIS 7 framework] has been developed to manage, process and analyse (big) spatio-temporal environmental data. It supports querying, map calculation, aggregation, statistics and gap filling for raster, vector and raster3D data. A temporal topology builder is available to build spatio-temporal topology connections between map objects for 1D, 3D and 4D extents.
+''A [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/temporalintro.html new temporal GRASS GIS 7 framework] has been developed to manage, process and analyse (big) spatio-temporal environmental data. It supports querying, map calculation, aggregation, statistics and gap filling for raster, vector and raster3D data. A temporal topology builder is available to build spatio-temporal topology connections between map objects for 1D, 3D and 4D extents.''
 
  * G7:t.create: new - Creates a space time dataset. 
@@ -226 +229 @@
 
  * stability fixes (upper case and UK/US notions)
- * automated line densification for vector data
+ * automated line vertex densification for vector data
 
 ==== Portability changes ====