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== History ==
=== GRASS ===
{{Cquote|GRASS GIS has been under continuous development since 1982, when the US Army Corps of Engineer's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) started exploring the use of GIS for environmental research, monitoring and management of military lands. Since no other software package available back then met all their requirements, they designed and developed their own. GRASS GIS was born under the name of Fort Hood Information System (FHIS).
Meanwhile, other US federal agencies and environmental offices became interested and the more general purpose GRASS was born. Several universities adopted GRASS as an important training and research environment and many conducted short-courses for the public, in addition to using GRASS in their own curricula. A large number of US federal agencies, universities, and private companies got also involved in the development during the 90's.|||GRASS Development Team "[https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/ GRASS GIS history]"}}
=== Open Geospatial Consortium ===
{{Cquote|Its origins are owed to the creation of Geographic Resource and Analysis Support System (GRASS) -- an open source, UNIX-based software developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The GRASS community, motivated by the increasing availability of spatial data, grew from 300 users in the mid-eighties to over 6000 by the mid-nineties. This large user group, which included governmental agencies, industry and academia, required effective support which was sought from the private sector. This inspired the formation of a non-profit organisation -- the Open GRASS Foundation (OGF), whose role was to stimulate private sector support for GRASS.
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