Open source geophysical software

I agree that being able to chop and shuffle pdfs is very handy. It gives you full control OR does each step automatically, which is really cool! Another vote in favour of Hugin as a panorama-editor and photostitcher. Can be a bit of a resource hog in the windows ports, but just use the native Linux packages. Great compilation. Excellent post. It even knows mountains and volcanoes, too.

Great basemaps and for adding country outlines, glaciers, rivers and towns to your data. A couple of years ago I set about trying to collect geoscience FLOSS into a couple of Wikipedia pages: List of free geology software and List of free geophysics software , following the format of other similar pages.

I thought you and others might be interested in those. It stores and renders images and equations nicely too. I like this post. Has anyone seen anything like that around? Great list! Audio for all 26 classes is online. There is a huge amount of information there. Pingback: All the software a geoscientist needs.

For free! Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu. Nice list, worth giving a IPython a look, the recent development of the Notebook , is powerful giving you output and code inline.

The Anaconda Community Edition Python distribution is a good base for getting the Scientific Python stack particularly for 64 bit Windows systems. Also if you want a simple and easy way for working with shapefiles in Python, I have found pyshp very useful. Very powerful. Thanks for the interesting comments. LyX www. I mainly use LaTeX from the command line and edit the tex files by hand. All Around GIS.

I need to free software which can make and draw geological cross-section and geological fence diagrams for sub-surface lithology. Matt Hall made a list of other geological software on Wikipedia see his comment above.

Great box of resources. Thanks for sharing. Do any of you know freeware to draft stratigraphic columns and logs of boreholes to be compiled in cross sections? I will be posting some when I find the locations… Thanks.

Alberto, this is something that I have often searched the web for. You might be able to get source from the author. No idea on availability of source. If you let Matt Hall know, he may add them to his Wiki lists, too see his comment. Sedlog only does your strat columns, it runs as a java package, and you can include as much or as little info as necessary.

Thanks to Cian Dawson via Twitter for the link. Thanks for the list. I think the graphical diagramming software Creately should be included in this list under graphic tools.

Thanks, very helpful article. But I think a free bar code generator is also necessary for geoscientist. Such a great list with useful and free software tools, thanks for sharing!

The British Geological Survey have recently released a free simple 2D litho-stratigraphic map and cross-section construction tool.

It can also display simple borehole logs. The Spatial Blog. The examples shows borehole strata qgis vector layer , groundwater levels database table and ground surface from raster.

But you may plot any raster data in the section plot e. Have you ever tried viking, openstereo, stereonet, flowlines, 3dstrain, rotating clasts, shearbox, shearfabric, straintheory, stressvstrain, SAGA GIS, gvSIG, darktable and recordmydesktop on Ubuntu is better kazam? Have a splendid day and thank you for sharing your experiences.

The R packages are nice, especially ggtern. Pingback: End-September update BabelFlysch. I am looking for a free and legal software for automatic selection of simlar objects e.

I have used it to measure size distributions of volcanic ash particles before. Great resources for geoscientists. Have you come across or used any 3D geological modelling software?

Something like Rockworks or Geomodeller 3d? Any ideas? You might find some links and other ideas on the Wikipedia list of free geology software. Iceland volcano ash geology open source GIS python.

Skip to content. Home About volcan Every post ever Useful Links. All the software a geoscientist needs. Posted on November 24, by John A. It handles raster and vector data in all formats and is easily scriptable to automate workflows. I use it to create new GIS datasets from raw data e.

It is ideal for making and printing maps from pre-existing datasets. GDAL gdal-bin : A command-line swiss-army-knife for GIS files allowing you to convert formats, change projection, join, crop and alter the resolution of raster files and much more. Includes OGR, which does the same with vector files e. Proj4 proj-bin, proj-data : Command line tools for reprojecting data points in different map projections cs2cs.

This works behind-the-scenes of GDAL. Generic Mapping Tools gmt, gmt-coast-low, gmt-doc : These command-line tools for plotting publication-quality maps of geophysical data are very popular among oceanographers and seismologists. Google Earth instructions here : A 3D globe in your computer showing everything from the submarine mountains of the Mid-Atlantic ridge to the car parked in your street. GPS Babel gpsbabel : Communicate with any handheld GPS unit, and convert formats between gpx, kml, garmin and anything else that you can think of.

The Windows version has a graphical user interface. The best feature is the ability to geotag photos then view them in Google Earth see video here. Data Processing and Plotting Python python : An open source, cross-platform programming language. It is widely-used by scientists and is extremely versatile because it can be easily extended using addon modules such as these below. Some of the other advantages are described here.

Everything that I used to do in Matlab, I now do in Python, safe in the knowledge I can take the scripts with me wherever I go. The easiest way to get Python and most of the following packages onto a Windows machine is by installing Python x,y. IPython ipython : Excellent interactive interface for Python. In particular, the IPython Notebook lets you write Python in your web browser, combining it with text, LaTeX, images, hyperlinks and videos. There are great examples the people have shared on the nbviewer website.

It is going to revolutionise teaching students how to code. Numpy and SciPy python-numpy, python-numpy-doc, python-scipy, python-netcdf : Scientific and numerical computing modules for Python, allowing it to handle arrays of numbers, and the NetCDF data format. Matplotlib python-matplotlib, python-matplotlib-doc : Plotting modules for Python allowing you to make all kinds of publication-quality 2D and 3D figures such as these. Basemap python-mpltoolkits. See some examples here. It also contains the pyproj module which allows easy conversion between coordinate systems.

See my post for a quick intro. R r-recommended : An open source, cross-platform programming environment, with a strong emphasis on statistics. Also very powerful for geospatial data. See them for useful links. It can be accessed via the same Structured Query Language used by cutting-edge data servers, but the data are stored in a single, portable file. This allows you to perform cool queries such as getting a list of photos of samples that were collected on a Tuesday, in Scotland, and had ash in them.

Ideal for getting data from old papers. L ibreOffice Calc libreoffice-calc : An open source spreadsheet program, and a viable substitute for Excel. LibreOffice is a slightly more independent version of Open Office. Gnumeric gnumeric is a quicker, but less featured, spreadsheet program. It runs in Firefox and lets you add articles to the database directly from the journal website or the results page of a Web of Science query.

It has a plugin that lets you put references into Word or Writer documents and can export BibTex files, too. Also, it syncs with the cloud, so your reference library is constant across different computers.

It is used to produce beautifully laid-out pdf documents from plain text files containing the text and some simple formatting codes e. The best thing is that it does referencing, section numbering, figure captions and tables of contents for you automatically. If you are about to write a thesis, then learning LaTeX will be one of the best things that you ever did. LibreOffice Writer libreoffice-writer : This is an open source word processing program.

This is an ideal substitute for Microsoft Word on all platforms, as it can read and write. The most important features for me, comments and track changes, work perfectly. Miniconda3 - Basic Python environment. Allows using the Presentation Maker plugin without having to install Python yourself.

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Also included is an attribute Mistie Application that will apply the corrections. Free Software OpendTect OpendTect OpendTect is an open source seismic interpretation software system for processing, visualizing and interpreting multi-volume seismic data, and for fast-track development of innovative interpretation tools. Spectral Decomposition Spectral Decomposition is used for imaging and mapping temporal bed thickness and geological discontinuities.

Movie-Style Parameter Attribute parameters frequency, time gate or step out can be inspected in a movie-style way, to quickly find the optimal settings for your data. Distributed Computing Heavy processing of large volumes can be carried out in batch mode on multiple machines and on multiple platforms that can be accessed through the network.

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