10 of the Best Free Linux Earth Science Software
Earth science (also known as geoscience) is the focus of
understanding the sciences related to the planet Earth. It includes
a wide range of fields such as geology, geography,
geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology. Some people are
surprised to learn that astronomy is also regarded to be an earth
science. Geology is generally considered to be the primary earth
science.
Earth scientists plays an important role in helping nations
minimise risks that are posed by climate change and natural
disasters (such as floods, tornados, hurricanes,
and earthquakes).
Science really prospers and advances when individuals share
the results of their experiments with others in the scientific
community. There is a certain logic that scientific software should
therefore be released under an open source license. Software
is crucial in helping earth
scientists carry out scientific research in understanding the system
earth and its interplay with society.
Linux has a particularly strong and mature set of scientific
software including a wide range of open source earth science
software. We have not forgotten about astronomy software,
but our picks in 42
of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software highlighted our
recommendations in this field.
To provide an insight into the open source software that is
available, we have compiled a list of 10 of our favourite earth
science software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here
for budding scientists that need to work with large amounts of data
with
spatial attributes.
So, let's explore the 10 earth science software at hand.
For each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full
description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots,
together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
| Earth Science Software |
| GRASS |
Geographic
Resources Analysis Support System |
| Seismic
Toolkit |
Tool
for
seismic
signal processing in a graphical interface |
| Quantum
GIS |
User friendly Geographic Information System |
| Survex |
Cave
surveying and mapping software |
| SAGA |
System for
Automated Geoscientific Analyses |
| uDig |
Spatial
data viewer/editor |
| Therion |
Cave surveying - 2D and 3D drawing software |
| GrADS |
Grid
Analysis and Display System for earth science data |
|
Generic Mapping Tools |
Collection of tools that allow users to
manipulate
(x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets |
| ncview |
Visual
browser for NetCDF format files |
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