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Geoware specializes in using GMT to make regional and global topographic maps of exceptional quality, and developing custom applications written in C or Unix shells. We also distribute the GMT Companion CD-R and DVD-Rs which provide the service of combining many public-domain data sets and software
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on easy-to-install CD- or DVD-Rs for both Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms (New versions as of July 15, 2010). Finally, we also distribute TTT, the tsunami travel time estimator for bathymetric grids.
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that they constructed from two public domain data sets, the World Data Bank II (WDB), also known as CIA Data Bank, and the World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data set.
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collection of computer software tools for processing and displaying geographic and Cartesian datasets. They later supplemented this with the
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Wessel, P.; Smith, W. H. F. (1995). "New version of the generic mapping tools released".
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Flexural Deformation of Lithosphere at Seamounts, Fracture Zones, and Trenches
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Improvement of marine geophysical data sets via data analysis
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Paul Wessel (geophysicist)
Paul Wessel
Sarpsborg
Norway
Nittedal
University of Oslo
Columbia University
Generic Mapping Tools
Geology
Geophysics
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Sydney University
University of Oslo
Geological Society of America
Walter H. F. Smith
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
open-source
Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database (GSHHS)
volcanic hot spots
Hawaii
Yellowstone
Iceland
Easter Island
La Réunion
Tristan
Galápagos
Samoa
Ontong Java
Tasmantid

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