TerraView 5.2.1
TerraView is a Geographic
Information System (GIS) that provides a
friendly interface allowing you to view and manipulate both vector and
raster data. This application was developed on top of TerraLib 5 geographic library which have been completely reengineered.
In this new version of TerraView some concepts previously used have
changed and some new concepts were adopted.
A short explanation of these
concepts is presented here. To know about the GUI TerraView visit this link.
It also presents new (or
enhanced versions of) functions for data conversion and data exchanging;
access to different data sources; map display; explanatory spatial data
analysis; spatial and non-spatial queries; vector and raster processing
and spatio-temporal analysis functionalities.
Some frequently asked questions from users who are starting to work
with this application are:
How
to manipulate data?
How
to change the visual
presentation of points, lines, polygons, raster data?
How to
Load/Unload, Add/Remove
Plugins?
Which Plugins are available in TerraView?
TerraView is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
TerraView
is distributed in
the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You
should have received a
copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with TerraView.
Comments,
suggestions and
feedbacks can be sent to TerraLib Team (terralib-team@dpi.inpe.br) at
Image Processing Division (DPI), Brazilian National Institute of Space
Research (INPE).