Support for the Generic Mapping Tools

支持通用绘图工具

• 批准号: 1558403
• 负责人: Paul Wessel
• 金额: $ 15.74万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558403&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Generic; Mapping; Tools

The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) software package has served marine scientists for almost 25 years. Thousands of federally funded US scientists have been trained to use GMT and count on GMT for their day-to-day research productivity. GMT?s power to process data and produce publication-quality graphics has made it a de facto standard for a large segment of geoscientists, often in combination with other opensource (e.g., Python) or commercial (e.g., MATLAB®) tools. GMT is a UNIX command-line tool set but developers can now design new tools using the GMT5 C/C++ Application Program Interface (API). Two such prototypes are the GMT/MATLAB API and an in-development GMT/Python API. The intertwined use of GMT, MATLAB® and Python encapsulates the working environment of a large group of marine geoscientists. The broader impacts of GMT software are extraordinary. GMT has a proven track record of being a fundamental part of US/NSF geoscience research infrastructure and benefits a wide range of scientists and the public on a global scale. The software promotes and enables science across the board in earth and ocean science on a truly international scale.The present project will undertake a transition of GMT from a PI-driven effort to a community-driven effort with the establishment of a GMT Steering Committee. Upgrades to version 5 of the software encompass assembling a Maintainers handbook, finalizing MGG tools, code hardening and creation of a Postscript Light plotting library for easier maintenance. Additional goals that are only partially covered by this effort include integration of externally supported geographic projection (PROJ4) library, an input/output library (OGR bridge) and the coastline database (using OpenStreetMap).

通用绘图工具 (GMT) 软件包已为海洋科学家服务了近 25 年。数千名联邦资助的美国科学家接受了使用 GMT 的培训，并依靠 GMT 来提高日常研究效率。 GMT 处理数据和生成出版物质量图形的能力使其成为大部分地球科学家事实上的标准，通常与其他开源（例如 Python）或商业（例如 MATLAB®）工具结合使用。 GMT 是一个 UNIX 命令行工具集，但开发人员现在可以使用 GMT5 C/C++ 应用程序编程接口 (API) 设计新工具。两个这样的原型是 GMT/MATLAB API 和正在开发的 GMT/Python API。 GMT、MATLAB® 和 Python 的交织使用概括了一大群海洋地球科学家的工作环境。 GMT 软件的更广泛影响是非同寻常的。 GMT 拥有作为 US/NSF 地球科学研究基础设施的基本组成部分的良好记录，并在全球范围内使广大科学家和公众受益。该软件在真正的国际范围内全面促进和实现地球和海洋科学领域的科学发展。当前项目将通过建立 GMT 指导委员会，将 GMT 从 PI 驱动的工作转变为社区驱动的工作。 升级到软件版本 5 包括编写维护者手册、最终确定 MGG 工具、代码强化以及创建 Postscript Light 绘图库以方便维护。这项工作仅部分涵盖的其他目标包括外部支持的地理投影 (PROJ4) 库、输入/输出库（OGR 桥）和海岸线数据库（使用 OpenStreetMap）的集成。