Datasets 1st Edition - Open Source GIS: GRASS Book

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova
1. Edition 2002, 464 pages – Latest: 3rd edition 2007!
ISBN: 1-4020-7088-8
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Dordrecht, London
Book Series: The Kluwer international series in Engineering and Computer Science: Volume 689

Sample data as used in the book “Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach”. Find detailed dataset descriptions within the book. Please let us know about any problems with these data.

*Dataset name*	*Book chapter(s)*	*Download*
Spearfish, South Dakota, USA	Used throughout the book	spearfish_grass50data.tar.gz: Spearfish UTM LOCATION (from GRASS web site, 10MB)
Jockey’s Ridge LIDAR data	Chapter 7	nclidar-utm.tar.gz: Ready to use GRASS LOCATION in UTM (39.5MB) for North Carolina online retrieval tool from NOAA (Jockeys Ridge is under North Carolina Fall 1999, coordinates for the region are in the book) lidaratm2.txt.gz: Dataset as ASCII text file (8MB). Uncompress with `gunzip lidaratm2.txt.gz` ASCII data description
Gully data	Chapter 7	gully.dat.gz: 3000pts ASCII file (x,y,z mass points and gully fault line points) for a DEM with gully. Uncompress with `gunzip gully.dat.gz` ASCII data description
Slovakia precipitation data	Chapter 7	slovakia.tar.gz: Ready to use GRASS LOCATION (3.5MB)
Chesapeake Bay nitrogen concentrations	Chapter7, footnote	chesapeakeshore.ascii.gz: Chesapeake Bay shoreline (250Kb). Uncompress with `gunzip chesapeakeshore.ascii.gz` Chesapeake Bay Shoreline data description chesapnitro4dll.dat.gz: Nitrogen concentration data (200Kb). Uncompress with `gunzip chesapnitro4dll.dat.gz` Nitrogen data description
Imagery for Spearfish, South Dakota, USA	Chapters 9, 10	imagery_grassdata.tar.gz: Imagery XY LOCATION (from GRASS web site, 18.2MB)
Wake County, North Carolina, USA	Chapter 12	ready-to-use GRASS 5 LOCATIONS: wake-spft-new.tar.gz: wake-spft GRASS location (State Plane Feet, 7.5MB, updated 26 May 2003) wake-spm.tar.gz: wake-spm GRASS location (State Plane Meters, 26.5MB) original data providers: Sediment and Erosion Control (SEC) Wake County GIS (Public download: SHAPE files) NC Libraries GIS NC GIS Data Grabber – Note, that some data are not visible/accessible outside NCSU domain Original data files: c0792_003.tif.gz (67Mb). Uncompress with `gunzip c0792_003.tif.gz` c0792_003.tfw.gz (1kb). Uncompress with `gunzip c0792_003.tfw.gz` c0792_004.tif.gz (67Mb). Uncompress with `gunzip c0792_004.tif.gz` c0792_004.tfw.gz (1kb). Uncompress with `gunzip c0792_004.tfw.gz` epalulc.tar.gz (62.2Mb) lw_buildings.tar.gz (230kb) lw_contour.tar.gz (4.4Mb) lw_hydro.tar.gz (90kb) lw_landcov.tar.gz (340kb) lw_roads.tar.gz (270kb) lw_soil.tar.gz (100kb) wake.zip (12.3Mb)
Maas river bank soil pollution data	Chapter 13	GRASS Maas UTM LOCATION (from GRASS web site, 650 kb)