DEVELOPED | 1995-2006 |
AUTHOR | Paul Wessel & Walter H. F. Smith. Department of Geology and Geophysics School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) University of Hawai'i at Manoa 1680 East-West Rd., POST # 812, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA pwessel(at)hawaii.edu walter(at)amos.grdl.noaa.gov |
PLATFORM | UNIX, Windows, MAC |
PURPOSE | collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc. |
FUNCTIONS | ESDA + maps & histograms ESTIMATIONS + Delaunay triangulation + nearest neighbour + continuous curvature + splines in tension OTHERS + time series + grid filtering (mean, median) + 30 map projections supported + produces Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views + comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries |
CODES | ANSI C codes are available. |
TIP | GMT has its own user mailing list. |
HOMEPAGE | http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu Reference of the manual: Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995 The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) version 3.0 Technical Reference & Cookbook, SOEST/NOAA. |