earth science Archives

SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses

SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) is a hybrid Geographic Information System (GIS) software for the analysis of spatial data.

GeoServer is a server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. It’s free and open source software.

WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform. It contains over 475 tools that easily plug into QGIS and ArcGIS.

MapServer is a system for developing web-based GIS applications.

ncview is software to get a quick and easy viewer for NetCDF files. View simple movies of the data, view along various dimensions.

GrADS is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data.

Therion is a tool for cave surveying. This application archive survey data on computer in a form as close to the original notes and sketches.

Survex is free and open source software suite to process, view, and print cave survey data. This is cross-platform software.

GMT is a collection of tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding.

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is an open source GIS used for geospatial data management and analysis.

User-Friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) is a spatial data viewer/editor, with special emphasis on the OpenGIS standards for internet GIS.

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats.

PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects.

GPlates offers interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions, geographic information system functionality and raster data visualization.

gvSIG Desktop is a powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide. Free and open source software