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Vaclav Petras stands at the podium opening a working session at the 2025 GRASS Developer Summit, as contributors sit around a large conference table with laptops and coffee at NC State in Raleigh. The screen behind him shows the title slide "GRASS Developer Summit 2025, May 19-24" beside the GRASS logo.

Jul 9, 2026

Center Researchers Help Lead a New GRASS Release Built for Python

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by members of the GRASS community at the Center for Geospatial Analytics. The latest release of GRASS, version 8.5.0, is out, with researchers and developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics among those who helped lead it. GRASS is an open-source geoprocessing engine developed by a community of…
screenshot of the GRASS GIS interface

Jul 7, 2022

New Version of GRASS GIS Released with Leadership from Center for Geospatial Analytics Researchers

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by members of the NCSU GeoForAll Lab. A new release of GRASS GIS is out thanks in large part to researchers and developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics. GRASS GIS is an open-source geoprocessing engine developed by a community of organizations and individuals from around the…
PoPS - Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University

Jun 8, 2022

Pest or Pathogen Spread (PoPS) Model 2.0.0 Released

Developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics have announced the release of PoPS 2.0.0, the latest official version of the Center’s signature open source system for forecasting the spread of insect pests and disease and for testing control strategies. PoPS stands for Pest or Pathogen Spread, requires no spatial modeling experience to run, and can…
shaded_all_bright_ortho - Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University

Oct 29, 2020

First Official Version of PoPS (Pest or Pathogen Spread) Model Released

Developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University have released the first stable version of the Pest or Pathogen Spread (PoPS) model, a free, open source system for forecasting the spread of insect pests and disease and for testing control strategies. The new release (v1.0) features an R package (rpops) consisting…
3D render of a landscape

Jan 14, 2020

Urban Growth Model FUTURES 2.0.0 Released

Developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics have released the newest official version of the center’s signature open source software for modeling urban growth: FUTURES 2.0.0.
Tangible Landscape

Oct 29, 2019

First Official Stable Version of Tangible Landscape Software Released

Developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics have announced the first stable release of Tangible Landscape, the center’s signature open source system for hands-on geospatial modeling: Tangible Landscape 1.0.0.