Support for the Generic Mapping Tools

通用绘图工具（GMT）是一套广泛使用的科学程序，用于数据分析和可视化，在科学界拥有非常广泛的用户基础。这个软件的广泛影响是非凡的。GMT仍然是海洋和固体地球科学的基础，其他基础设施软件依赖于它。多年来，PI对GMT代码库进行了进化和革命性的更改，导致GMT 4系列在2005年至2010年2月之间发布了13个版本，以及全新的模块化GMT 5平台。该奖项包括稳定，维护，改进和扩展GMT 5的资金，包括与地理信息系统（GIS）的互操作性，与谷歌地球的互操作性和其他改进。

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is a widely used set of scientific programs for data analysis and visualization with an extraordinary broad user base within the scientific community. The broader impacts of this software are extraordinary. GMT remains a foundation in the marine and solid Earth sciences, and other infrastructure software depends on it. Over many years the PIs have made both evolutionary and revolutionary changes to the GMT code base, resulting in 13 releases of the GMT 4 series between 2005 and February 2010 and a radically new and modularized GMT 5 platform. This award includes funding to stabilize, maintain, improve and extend GMT 5, including interoperability with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), interoperability with Google Earth and other improvements.