Open-Source Geophysical Softwares
Comprehensive seismic processing suites
These suites include a wide range of algorithms and tools, covering most of the needs of a seismic data processing and imaging researcher at the time when they were developed.
Specialized tools: There are also other publicly available packages, with a smaller number of utilities than the ones described above,but each having unique capabilities, in its own way. BrowsingSourceForge's Earth Sciences section may reveal others as well.| GPL-compatible licenses |
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| BotoSeis | collection of interactive java programs for seismic data processing, which can also be used as a graphical user interface for Seismic Unix, Madagascar or other in-house programs | Williams Lima and others (Brasil) | GPL | | Delivery | Java-based Bayesian seismic inversion code for use in oil reservoir characterisation | CSIRO Petroleum, Australia | The copyright belongs to BHP Billiton and the package is distributed under a GPL+BSD license. | | GeBR | Environment for seismic data processing, designed to easily assemble and run processing flows. Has GUI based on C and GTK+ | Contributors from Brasil | GPL | | GeoBenchmark | Benchmark for how fast computers are when working with seismic processing and imaging algorithms. More details in "Computers for seismic processing and imaging: a performance study", by E. Kurin, Proceedings of the 2007 SEG Annual Meeting, 2451-2454 | Evgeny Kurin, Geolab Ltd. | public domain | | GSEGYView | cross-platform SEG-Y data viewer with OpenGL graphics hardware acceleration | Vladimir Bashkardin (U. of Texas at Austin) | GPL | | image2segy | Matlab program to transform a raster image of a seismic paper or film record to SEGY. Uses SegyMat. | Marcelli Farran (Institute of Marince Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) | Creative Commons | | kogeo | MS-Windows only toolkit that features data processing, project databases, interpretation tools, 3-D header manipulation and good visualization tools | Philipp Konerding (U. of Hamburg, Germany) | GPL | | openGPR | Linux framework for the processing and 2D/3D-visualization of GPR data. Based on Seismic Unix, Python and QT4. Inactive since 2007. | Matthias Schuh, University of Tubingen, Germany | GPL | | qiWorkbench | extensible Java-based platform for implementing integrated workflows to process, analyze and view seismic data, originally designed by BHP Billiton to implement its integrated workflows to process, analyze and view seismic data | BHP, G&W, INT, CSM and CSIRO | GPL; BSD for APIs in order to allow closed-source commercial plugins | | SegyMAT | toolbox to read and write SEG-Y data to and from Matlab and Octave | Thomas Mejer Hansen (U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) | LGPL | | SegyPy | Python port of SegyMAT | same as SegyMAT | LGPL | | segy-py | Python package for reading seismic SEGY files | Kurt Schwehr (U. of New Hampshire) | GPL | | SeismicLab | Matlab toolbox that does preprocessing, imaging and plotting | Mauricio Sacchi (U. of Alberta, Canada) | GPL |
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| CREWES Educational Software Release | Matlab toolbox for seismic processing and imaging | CREWES consortium (U. of Calgary, Canada) | Free for non-commercial use | | GeoCraft | Lightweight framework (with visualization) for rapidly prototyping and deploying new geoscience algorithms | ConocoPhillips Inc. | Own license (MIT-style) | | SW3D | good-quality ray-theory based package | SW3D consortium (Charles U., Czech Republic) | Not specified | | Jive3D | forward-modelling and tomographic inversion package that is capable of modelling a wide range of seismic travel-time data types | James Hobro (Cambridge U., UK) | Free for noncommercial use or sponsors of the consortium | | RayInvr | package that does 2-D ray tracing, traveltime inversion, amplitude calculation and synthetics. Accompanied by a package called zplot for interactive plotting and picking of 2-D and 3-D wide-angle seismic data. | Colin Zelt (Rice U., USA) | Noncommercial use only | | JRG | Java-based basic reflection processing package with graphics, 3-d and crooked-line capabilities, SEG-Y and sound file I/O, and a GUI | John Louie (U. of Nevada at Reno, USA) | "The software and methods here are the subject of academic research, not commercial products. I would like to know what use you make of my methods, and have your feedback on their success or failure.". Also mention in the title that the package is open-source software. | | Mines Java Toolkit | set of Java packages and native (non-Java) code libraries for digital signal processing and 2-D and 3-D graphics | Dave Hale (Colorado School of Mines, USA) | Common Public License | | IGeoS - Integrated GeoScience data analysis | many seismic processing tasks in a wide range of geophysical, and ultimately geoscience data analysis. | Igor Morozov (U. of Saskatchewan, Canada) | Free for noncommercial use; commercial license available
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