Ben Horner-Johnson’s GMT & Geophysics Links (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ben/gmt.html) last updated: 2009-DEC-18 GMT Software:
GMT-3.4.6: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt\_download.html GMT-4.5.1: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt\_download.html GMT Bug Notes: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt\_bugs.html GMT 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: ftp://www.geophysics.lanl.gov/pub/gmt/gmt4nt.html GMT for OS/2: http://www.cybermesa.com/~acogbill/gmt/gmt4os2.html or http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/ or http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/graphics/index.html netCDF: ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z Front Ends: unix: iGMT (Tcl/Tk) http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/ another Tcl/Tk front-end http://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/ssc/info/prog\_com/ Win9x/NT: Win4GMT http://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gma/geo6es.html Mirone http://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone/ M_GMT (beta version) http://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/m_gmt GMT Documentation:
GMT man pages: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt\_man.html GMT supplemental man pages: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt\_suppl.html GMT Tutorial: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/tutorial/tutorial.html GMT Technical Reference & Cookbook: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT\_Docs/GMT\_Docs.html GMT color palettes: http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/data/schemes.pdf GMTHELP archives:
Official Archive: http://listserv.hawaii.edu/archives/gmt-help/ Eduardo A. Suárez: 1995-1998 http://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
ftp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/MGG/relief/reliefcd/SEARCH/ Entire database.
http://sunquakes.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/etopo5.zip
http://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 Oceans
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco/gebco.html
NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry
NOS: National Ocean Service:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/hydro.html
Satellite altimetry:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_predict.html
Smith & Sandwell, 1997 seafloor topography: 2 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72N
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine\_topo/mar\_topo.html
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_topo\_2min/ topo_7.2.img and topo_8.2.img
TerrainBase: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.html
http://gphsrv1.geophys2.uni-bremen.de/~jgriegel [netCDF format]
Regional:
South Hampton Oceanography Center
Borders:
Digital 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 format
http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/data/st\_cntry\_bndrs.tar GMT multi-segment file format
China
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/admin/bnd90/bnd90.html
US-Canada border
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/uscabdry/uscabdry.html
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/uscabdry/ibccan.zip
Cities:
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu:80/~mao/
http://www.astro.ch/atlas/atlquest-eng.shtml
CIA World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Locations/Populations/etc
http://ftp.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html
Heaven’s Above:
http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp
United Nations Statistics Division (capitals, 100000+ residents)
United States NIMA:
http://164.214.2.59:80/gns/html/cntry_files.html
http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
Climate and Weather
Live Access to Climate Data:
http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/las/jglas.html
OGIMET - 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.html
World 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.html
Regional:
Antarctic Digital Database:
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/magic/add_home.html [must register]
ftp://ice.geo.ua.edu/pub/sak/add.tar.gz [ digitized by Sridhar Anandakrishnan]
BAGIS Project: San Francisco Bay Area
http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/bagis/metadata/noaasfshore.html
NOAA Coastal Services Center High-resolution Digitial Shoreline [US]: [.SHP or .e00 or .MIF or SDTS]
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/shorelines/digdata.htm
NOAA Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline [US]: [.GEN or .BNA or .e00 formats]
http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html
USGS Coastline Extractor:
http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/getcoast.html
Color palettes:
The GMT color schemes:
http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~thoma/GMT/cpt.ps
http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt/data/schemes.pdf
ColorBrewer: software that generates RGB values
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.html
Color Palette City: A collection of color palettes for GMT
Datum conversions:
http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/services/gps-co/50000026.pdf
http://www.anzlic.org.au/icsm/gdatm/
ftp://164.214.2.65/pub/gig/tr8350.2/wgs84fin.pdf
http://164.214.2.59/GandG/wgs84dt/
Earthquake Catalogs:
CNSS: Council of the National Seismic System
http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cnss/
IRIS: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
http://www.iris.washington.edu/FORMS/event.search.form.htm
NGDC: Significant Earthquake Database
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sig_srch.shtml
USGS: National Earthquake Information Center
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/epic/epic.html
USGS: Weekly reports
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/WEEKREPS/weekly.html
Fault databases:
ftp://alum.wr.usgs.gov/pub/map/ascii Link may be down
http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq/faults/WUSfaults Western US except CA and NV
ftp://ghtftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/hazmaps/faults/ United States
Focal mechanisms:
http://www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.html Harvard CMT catalogue http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/ USGS (based on NEIS) ftp://gldfs.cr.usgs.gov/pub/momten/ USGS
Geographic Place Names:
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html [NIMA]
GIS Free Data:
Geoid:
WGS84 ECM96 field, 15 arc minute grid to degree/order 360
http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm96/egm96.html
Sandwell & Smith, 1999: World Geoid Image version 9.2, 2 minute resolution, 72S to 72N
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_grav\_2min/
Gravity:
Sandwell & Smith, 2005: World Gravity Image version 15.2, 2 minute resolution, 72S to 72N
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_grav\_2min/
Sandwell & Smith, 2005: World Gravity Image version 15.1, 1 minute resolution, 72 S to 72N
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_grav\_1min_V15/
Sandwell & Smith, 2007: World Gravity Image version 16.1, 1 minute resolution, 72 S to 72N
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_grav\_1min_V16/
Bureau Gravimetrique International
http://bgi.cnes.fr:8110/bgi\_service\_a.html
USGS
http://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 boundaries:
Peter Bird’s PB2002 model (published in G3: 4(3), 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GC000252)
Geological Survey of Japan [updated site in 2001, not sure of file location]
http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/dMG/free/plates/Intro.html
NUVEL 1: nuvel_1_plates (all), separate plates in multi-segment format, delimiter is “:”
University of Texas
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/plates.html
U.S. Geological Survery
ftp://alum.wr.usgs.gov/pub/map/ascii/plates.asc.Z
Projections:
Oddens bookmarks for *any* kind of cartographic related topics
http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/html/staff/oddens/oddens.htm
PROJ4.ps. describes many projections
http://www.remotesensing.org/proj
A Guide to Coordinate Systems in Great Britain
http://www.o-s.co.uk/services/gps-co/geo6.htm
German coordinate system (Landesvermessungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen)
http://www.lverma.nrw.de/vermessung/raumbezug/purraumbezug.htm
Rivers:
HYDRO1K: Drainage network extracted from GTOPO30
http://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, oxygen
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html [1994, 1998, 2001]
Sediment Thickness:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/sedthick.html
GSC Open file 3039 “A digital compilation of depth to basement and sediment
thickness 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 Map
http://www.world-stress-map.org/
Topography:
Global:
ETOPO5: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry
http://sunquakes.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/etopo5.zip
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/spherekit/platforms.html [netCDF format]
ETOPO2: 2 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds759.3/
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.html
GLOBE: Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globeget.shtml
GTOPO30: 30 second grid, global topography
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
SRTM30: 30 second grid, global topography, GTOPO30 + Shuttle Radar Topography
http://srtm.usgs.gov/obtainingdata.html
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/SRTM30
TerrainBase: 5 minute grid, global topography/bathymetry
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.html
http://gphsrv1.geophys2.uni-bremen.de/~jgrigel [netCDF format]
Regional:
3 arc-second topography[US only]
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
Arctic: 2.5 km grid, BETA VERSION
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/arctic.html
BEDMAP: 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 version
Smith & Sandwell, 1997 seafloor topography: 2 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72N
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine\_topo/mar\_topo.html
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_topo\_2min/ topo_8.2.img
Smith & Sandwell, 2007 seafloor topography: 1 minute grid, measured & estimated topo, 72S to 72N
ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/global\_topo\_1min/ topo_9.1.img
USGS 7.5 minute DEM files [SDTS format]
USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)
http://edcnts12.cr.usgs.gov/ned/default.htm
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 Format
http://www.geosoft.com/support/technote/pdf/gxfr3d9_1.pdf
NetCDF: NETwork Common Data Form
http://unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/index.html
PostScript®:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/main.html
Richard’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.html
http://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)
ftp://ftp.ualg.pt/users/jluis [gmt_customio.c, gmt_customio.h, gmtformats.d]
Other Software
3dem: a 3D fly-through program
http://www.monumental.com/rshorne/3dem.html
ArcGMT: A suite of tools for conversion between Arc/INFO and GMT
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/arcgmt/
ftp://capnhook.geo.orst.edu/pub/arcgmt.tar
GMT -> ArcInfo
http://www.info-scoop.com/free/ gen2shape xy-> ArcINFO shape file
ColorBrewer: generates RGB values for use in .cpt files
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html
DEM2ASCII: converts GTOPO30 DEMs to ASCII
http://lcdx00.wm.lc.ehu.es/~jsaenz/dem2ascii
Digitizers: On-screen digitizers, require Tcl/Tk
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dshiels/computer/digitizer.html
http://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 %%BoundingBox
http://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 images
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 software
http://www.ai.sri.com/geotransform/
GhostScript/GhostView: On-screen PostScript® previewer/previewer front-end
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
GIFMerge: merges individual GIFs into an animated GIF
gimpcpt: converts GIMP gradients to GMT’s color palette (.cpt) format
http://www.vindaloo.uklinux.net/jjg/code.html
GIS Resources:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.html
http://www.partsgeek.com/parts/gis_resources.html
GLOBARC30: [GTOPO30 interface]
http://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gma/geo0uk.html
gmtperl: Perl interface to GMT
http://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 archive
GrdView(er): Java3D viewer for netCDF grids
http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta/tools/gridviewer.html
http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta/tutorials/videos/gridviewer.avi Tutorial
http://sioexplorer.ucsd.edu or http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/beta Updates
IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer
http://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 ]
ftp://geom.geometrics.com/pub/mag/Software/magpick2_6.exe [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/etc
http://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 GMT
http://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. http://rapa.geol.ucsb.edu/pub/phils (gmtmex5.tar.Z) [grd2matlab] —– file formats:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/167-2001/file-formats.htm —– GMT Color Palettes http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~pete/TEST/Minma.tar.gz —– GMT Script site: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/users/darren/gmt —– Distances: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/gisfaq?Q5.1 —– Here are TONS of great links for data, software, etc. Part I: The Virtual Earth http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.htm
Part II: The Soft Earth http://dindy.geo.uniroma1.it/~loreto/iper-min/minvirt/s\_earth.htm —– Paleomaps (rotated continent positions): http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html —– Slab contours: http://rses.anu.edu.au/seismology/projects/RUM/rum\_download.html —– GMT as backbone for web visualization (seismic hazards) http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq/html/custom.shtml —– Everything about color: ftp://ftp.inforamp.net/pub/users/poynton/doc/colour/ [ North America ] ftp://ftp.igd.fhg.de/pub/doc/colour/ColorFAQ.pdf ftp://ftp.igd.fhg.de/pub/doc/colour/GammaFAQ.pdf http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/ftp/misc/colorfaq.pdf [ Europe ] http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/ftp/misc/gammafaq.pdf http://www.robo.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~niimi/color-space/COL\_25.htm http://www.cs.rit.edu/~yxv4997/t\_convert.html [ conversion algorithms ] —– DEM error analysis > Susan Wechler has created a virtual report at: > > http://web.syr.edu/~srperlit/survdisc.html “This dissertation focuses on the impact of unknown errors in the DEM product.” —– Antarctic Features Database: http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/magic/add_home.html
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.
This shell script and it’s output are visible thru the web page: ADDtest.gmt A shell script to plot all of these (to ADDtest.ps) Sridhar Anandakrishnan sak@geo.ua.edu ftp://ice.geo.ua.edu/pub/sak/add.tar.gz
Sridhar Anandakrishnan (sak@ua.edu) ftp://osiris.geo.ua.edu/pub/sak/ —– Crustal motion: NUVEL-1A, (NNR velocity) http://sps.unavco.org/crustal_motion/dxdt/nnrcalc
Convert DEM to geographic coordinates http://www.mbari.org/~kels/dem.html
National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research http://nceer.eng.buffalo.edu/
spinning globes http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/images.html#relief
WAM Cycle 4: http://superior.eng.ohio-state.edu/~welsh/cwo/related.html
Contour maps of distance from a location:
