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Generic Mapping Tools

Description

gmt website

GMT is an open source collection of about 90 command-line tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing high-quality illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces, 3D perspective views and animations. The GMT supplements add another 50 more specialized and discipline-specific tools.

Environment Modules

Run module spider gmt to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_GMT_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_GMT_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses gmt you have to cite it as follows:

Wessel, P., Luis, J. F., Uieda, L., Scharroo, R., Wobbe, F., Smith, W. H. F., & Tian, D. (2019). The Generic Mapping Tools version 6. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 5556-5564. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008515

Categories

physics, biology