\title{Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, 3rd Edition}
\author{Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova}
\maketitle

With this third edition of \textbf{Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS
  Approach}, we enter the new era of GRASS~6, the first release that
includes substantial new code developed by the International GRASS
Development Team. The dramatic growth in open source software
libraries has made the GRASS~6 development more efficient, and has
enhanced GRASS interoperability with a wide range of open source and
proprietary geospatial tools.

Thoroughly updated with material related to the GRASS~6, the third
edition includes new sections on attribute database management and SQL
support, vector networks analysis, lidar data processing and new
graphical user interfaces. All chapters were updated with numerous
practical examples using the first release of a comprehensive,
state-of-the-art geospatial data set.

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach (third edition) preserves the
continuity of previous editions by maintaining the proven book's
structure and continues to target professional audience composed of
researchers and practitioners in government and industry as well as
graduate students interested in geospatial analysis and modeling.

Written for: Professionals, researchers and practitioners, graduate
students.  For more information see the
\href{http://www.grassbook.org/}{GRASSbook.org} website.

\begin{figure}
 	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{dev_announce/neteler/neteler_book2007_cover.png}
\end{figure}
