Ben Horner-Johnson's GMT & Geophysics Links
last updated: 2009-DEC-18GMT Software:
GMT-3.4.6:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_download.htmlGMT-4.5.1:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_download.htmlGMT Bug Notes:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_bugs.htmlGMT Installation:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_install_form.html
GMT for MacOS X:http://fink.sourceforge.net install fink, type: "fink install gmt"GMT for Win-NT:GMT for OS/2:http://www.cybermesa.com/~acogbill/gmt/gmt4os2.html orhttp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/ orhttp://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/graphics/index.html
netCDF:
Front Ends:
unix: iGMT (Tcl/Tk)http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/another Tcl/Tk front-endhttp://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/ssc/info/prog_com/Win9x/NT: Win4GMThttp://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gma/geo6es.htmlMironehttp://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone/M_GMT (beta version)http://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/m_gmtGMT Documentation:GMT man pages:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_man.htmlGMT supplemental man pages:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_suppl.htmlGMT Tutorial:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/tutorial/tutorial.htmlGMT Technical Reference & Cookbook:http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT_Docs/GMT_Docs.htmlGMT color palettes:http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/data/schemes.pdfGMTHELP archives:Official Archive:http://listserv.hawaii.edu/archives/gmt-help/Eduardo A. Suárez: 1995-1998http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~esuarez/gmt/
GMTHELP via NNTP: Server: news2.sinica.edu.tw Group: gis.gmtlist Server: new.gmane.org Group: gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
ONLINE DATASETS:1 x 1 degree DEM (Digital Elevation Model):http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
AVHRR level 1B data:http://www.mtv.sai.jrc.it/projects/fire/home.html Broken Link?http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/data/avhrr/
Bathymetry:ETOPO5: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry Entire database.http://sunquakes.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/etopo5.ziphttp://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/spherekit/platforms.html [netCDF format]ETOPO2: 2 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry (integer dataset)http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds759.3/ETOPO2: version 2, 2 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry (COARDS netcdf)http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.html Select parts of database.http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO2/ETOPO2v2-2006/ETOPO2v2c/netCDF/GEBCO: GEneral Bathymetric Chart of the Oceanshttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco/gebco.htmlNGDC: National Geophysical Data Centerhttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetryNOS: National Ocean Service:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/hydro.htmlSatellite altimetry:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_predict.htmlSmith & Sandwell, 1997 seafloor topography: 2 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72Nhttp://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html topo_7.2.img and topo_8.2.imgTerrainBase: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetryhttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.htmlhttp://gphsrv1.geophys2.uni-bremen.de/~jgriegel [netCDF format]Regional:South Hampton Oceanography Centerhttp://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Bordersigital Chart of the World:http://ortelius.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/http://www.mobilegeographics.com/downloads/st_cntry_bndrs.tar.gz GMT multi-segment file formathttp://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/data/st_cntry_bndrs.tar GMT multi-segment file formatChinahttp://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/admin/bnd90/bnd90.htmlUS-Canada borderhttp://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/uscabdry/uscabdry.htmlhttp://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/uscabdry/ibccan.zip
Cities:http://www.ecf.toronto.edu:80/~mao/http://www.astro.ch/atlas/atlquest-eng.shtmlCIA World Fact Bookhttp://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.htmlLocations/Populations/etchttp://ftp.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.htmlHeaven's Above:http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.aspUnited Nations Statistics Division (capitals, 100000+ residents)http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/United States NIMA:http://164.214.2.59:80/gns/html/cntry_files.htmlhttp://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
Climate and WeatherLive Access to Climate Data:http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/las/jglas.htmlOGIMET - Weather Information Service, Global Forecast System:http://www.ogimet.com/home.phtml.en [English]http://www.ogimet.com/home.phtml.en [Español]SPECMAP:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/specmap.htmlWorld Ocean Atlas:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/data_woa.html
Coastlines:Global:GSHHS: Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline Database: [used in GMT]http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.htmlRegional:Antarctic Digital Database:http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/magic/add_home.html [must register] [ digitized by Sridhar Anandakrishnan]BAGIS Project: San Francisco Bay Areahttp://www.regis.berkeley.edu/bagis/metadata/noaasfshore.htmlNOAA Coastal Services Center High-resolution Digitial Shoreline [US]: [.SHP or .e00 or .MIF or SDTS]http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/shorelines/digdata.htmNOAA Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline [US]: [.GEN or .BNA or .e00 formats]http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.htmlUSGS Coastline Extractor:http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/getcoast.html
Color palettes:The GMT color schemes:http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~thoma/GMT/cpt.pshttp://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/data/schemes.pdfColorBrewer: software that generates RGB valueshttp://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.htmlColor Palette City: A collection of color palettes for GMThttp://cpt-city.org.uk/
Datum conversions:http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/services/gps-co/50000026.pdfhttp://www.anzlic.org.au/icsm/gdatm/http://164.214.2.59/GandG/wgs84dt/
Earthquake Catalogs:CNSS: Council of the National Seismic Systemhttp://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cnss/IRIS: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismologyhttp://www.iris.washington.edu/FORMS/event.search.form.htmNGDC: Significant Earthquake Databasehttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sig_srch.shtmlUSGS: National Earthquake Information Centerhttp://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/epic/epic.htmlUSGS: Weekly reportshttp://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/WEEKREPS/weekly.html
Fault databases: Link may be downhttp://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq/faults/WUSfaults Western US except CA and NV United States
Focal mechanisms: http://www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.htmlHarvard CMT catalogue http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/USGS (based on NEIS) USGS
Geographic Place Names:http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html [NIMA]
GIS Free Data:http://www.gisdatadepot.com/
Geoid:WGS84 ECM96 field, 15 arc minute grid to degree/order 360http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm96/egm96.htmlSandwell & Smith, 1999: World Geoid Image version 9.2, 2 minute resolution, 72S to 72N
Gravity:Sandwell & Smith, 2005: World Gravity Image version 15.2, 2 minute resolution, 72S to 72NSandwell & Smith, 2005: World Gravity Image version 15.1, 1 minute resolution, 72 S to 72NSandwell & Smith, 2007: World Gravity Image version 16.1, 1 minute resolution, 72 S to 72NBureau Gravimetrique Internationalhttp://bgi.cnes.fr:8110/bgi_service_a.htmlUSGShttp://crustal.cr.usgs.gov/crustal/geophysics/index.html#one
Heat Flow:http://zeus.wdcb.ru/wdcb/sep/catalog/entries/h_03.html
Holocene Volcanoes:http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/
Hotspots:http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/lips/data/hotspots.htm
Palaeomagnetic Database:http://www.ngu.no/dragon/Palmag/paleomag.htm
Plate boundarieseter Bird's PB2002 model (published in G3: 4(3), 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GC000252)http://element.ess.ucla.eduGeological Survey of Japan [updated site in 2001, not sure of file location]http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/dMG/free/plates/Intro.htmlNUVEL 1: nuvel_1_plates (all), separate plates in multi-segment format, delimiter is ":"http://jules.unavco.org/Gmt/University of Texashttp://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/plates.htmlU.S. Geological Survery
Projections:Oddens bookmarks for *any* kind of cartographic related topicshttp://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/html/staff/oddens/oddens.htmPROJ4*.ps.* describes many projectionshttp://www.remotesensing.org/projA Guide to Coordinate Systems in Great Britainhttp://www.o-s.co.uk/services/gps-co/geo6.htmGerman coordinate system (Landesvermessungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen)http://www.lverma.nrw.de/vermessung/raumbezug/purraumbezug.htm
Rivers:HYDRO1K: Drainage network extracted from GTOPO30http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/hydro/
Roads/Railways:http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/ [ North American Transportation Atlas]
Salinity/Temperature:World Ocean Atlas: temperature, salinity, nutrients, oxygenhttp://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html [1994, 1998, 2001]
Sediment Thickness:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/sedthick.htmlGSC Open file 3039 "A digital compilation of depth to basement and sedimentthickness for the North Atlantic and adjacent coastal land areas"http://geoscope.ipgp.jussieu.fr/pub/logiciels/3SMAC (README, 3SMAC.2v6.tar.Z)
Stress:http://www-wsm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ World Stress Maphttp://www.world-stress-map.org/
Topography:Global:ETOPO5: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetryhttp://sunquakes.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/etopo5.ziphttp://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/spherekit/platforms.html [netCDF format]ETOPO2: 2 minute grid, global topography/bathymetryhttp://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds759.3/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.htmlGLOBE: Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevationhttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globeget.shtmlGTOPO30: 30 second grid, global topographyhttp://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.htmlSRTM30: 30 second grid, global topography, GTOPO30 + Shuttle Radar Topographyhttp://srtm.usgs.gov/obtainingdata.htmlhttp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/SRTM30TerrainBase: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetryhttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.htmlhttp://gphsrv1.geophys2.uni-bremen.de/~jgrigel [netCDF format]Regional:3 arc-second topography[US only]http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.htmlArctic: 2.5 km grid, BETA VERSIONhttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/arctic.htmlBEDMAP: requires conversion to GMT format, GDAL python extension (search the archive)http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/aedc/bedmap/http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~thoma/BEDMAP/ GMT versionSmith & Sandwell, 1997 seafloor topography: 2 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72Nhttp://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html topo_8.2.imgSmith & Sandwell, 2007 seafloor topography: 1 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72N topo_9.1.imgUSGS 7.5 minute DEM files [SDTS format]http://www.atdi-us.comUSGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)http://edcnts12.cr.usgs.gov/ned/default.htmhttp://edna.usgs.gov/
X-band satellite data:http://www.dlr.de/NE-HF/projects/SRTM
FILE FORMATS:
1 x 1 degree DEM:http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/1_dgr_dem.supplement#1_dgr.sup2
DLG:
GXF: Grid eXchange Formathttp://www.geosoft.com/support/technote/pdf/gxfr3d9_1.pdf
NetCDF: NETwork Common Data Formhttp://unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/index.html
PostScript®:Adobe:http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/main.htmlRichard's PS Junk Page:http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cj434/
S57:http://www.ohi.shom.fr/general/files/ecdisnew.htm
SDTS:http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/public.htmlhttp://rmmcweb.cr.usgs.gov/software/http://wegener.mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de/GMT-Help/ search for DEM2GMT
Surfer:[ GMT <-> SURF ] ( part of GMT since version 3.3.6 , grdio format 6) [gmt_customio.c, gmt_customio.h, gmtformats.d]
Other Software
3dem: a 3D fly-through programhttp://www.monumental.com/rshorne/3dem.html
ArcGMT: A suite of tools for conversion between Arc/INFO and GMThttp://dusk.geo.orst.edu/arcgmt/
GMT -> ArcInfohttp://www.info-scoop.com/free/ gen2shape xy-> ArcINFO shape file
ColorBrewer: generates RGB values for use in .cpt fileshttp://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html
DEM2ASCII: converts GTOPO30 DEMs to ASCIIhttp://lcdx00.wm.lc.ehu.es/~jsaenz/dem2ascii
Digitizers: On-screen digitizers, require Tcl/Tkhttp://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dshiels/computer/digitizer.htmlhttp://www.acclab.helsinki.fi/~frantz/software/g3data.php
DXF2xyz: [Windows only]http://www.guthcad.com.au/freestuff.htm
epstool: converts PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript - add preview, fix %%BoundingBoxhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
File Conversion Central:http://daytona.ca.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/conversion_central-3.1/cccgi
GD library: API for writing PNG imageshttp://www.boutell.com/gd/
GEODAS: NGDC Trackline Database (search, requires CD-ROMs for data retrieval)http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html
GeoTransform: Java coordinate transformation softwarehttp://www.ai.sri.com/geotransform/
GhostScript/GhostView: On-screen PostScript® previewer/previewer front-endhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
GIFMerge: merges individual GIFs into an animated GIFhttp://the-labs.com/GIFmerge/
gimpcpt: converts GIMP gradients to GMT's color palette (.cpt) formathttp://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg/code.html
GIS Resources:http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.htmlhttp://www.partsgeek.com/parts/gis_resources.html
GLOBARC30: [GTOPO30 interface]http://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gma/geo0uk.html
gmtperl: Perl interface to GMThttp://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg/code.html
GRADS: [ extract data from NOAA/NCAR/... netCDF files (.nc) ]http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/PublicData/tools.html#grads
Graphics Gems:http://www.acm.org/tog/GraphicsGems/
GRASS: [Geographic Resources Analysis Support System] http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/ Official GRASS GIS Web Site http://www-gis.sscc.ru/WWW/resource/grass.html GRASS related links http://op.gfz-potsdam.de/GRASS-List/ GRASS help archiveGrdView(er): Java3D viewer for netCDF gridshttp://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta/tools/gridviewer.htmlhttp://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta/tutorials/videos/gridviewer.avi Tutorialhttp://sioexplorer.ucsd.edu or http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta Updates
IBM Open Visualization Data Explorerhttp://www.research.ibm.com/dx/http://www.opendx.org/index2.php
IGRF-Applet: [plots of Geomagnetic field or components]http://www.geo.fmi.fi/MAGN/igrf/
ImageMagick:http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html [Win32/PC?]http://www.imagemagick.org/cristy/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi/http://www.design-training.com/art/image-formatting.html
Magpick: [ netCDF grid viewer ] [Win32]Linux version available from www.geometrics.com
MB System: [multi-beam bathymetry, other processing]http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/MB-System/
MicroDEM: [format/projection conversion, handles SDTS format]http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdem.htm [Win32]
MrSID SID file viewer/translator [Win32/some Linux]http://www.lizardtech.com/download/?f=0&d=1
Orbital interpolation:http://www.deos.tudelft.nl/ers/precorbs/software/
Paleomagnetism:http://geography.lancs.ac.uk/cemp/resources/software.htm [Windows]http://sorcerer.ucsd.edu/pmag/ by Lisa Tauxe
Poster sized plots (similar to psmegaplot)http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/poster-9.1995-st.html
PostScript to "edit" [Xfig]:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/
PostScript to "img":http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/ [LaTeX2Html]
PROJ4: projections/datum shifts/etchttp://www.remotesensing.org/proj/
SDTS2DEM:http://www.cs.arizona.edu/topovista/sdts2dem/ [Win32, Linux source]
Seismic Unix:http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes
tmutils: tools to manipulate the TERRS-MODIS dataset for GMThttp://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg/code.html
Windows UNIX shell emulators:Cygwin:http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/WinXS:http://www.softwareonline.org/winxs42.html
This is the part that is under construction.
ADDant.txt Antarctic continent boundary
ADDfris.txt Filchner-Ronne ice shelf
ADDfrisisl.txt Berkner Is., Henry and Korff Ice Rises
ADDotheris.txt Larsen, Risser, Amery Ice Shelves
ADDris.txt Ross Ice Shelf
ADDrisisl.txt Crary Ice Rise, Roosevelt Is., Steershead Cr.(?),
Black, and White Is.
Contour maps of distance from a location:http://yama.colorado.edu:8080/dist.html
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