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Published June 25, 2024 | Version 2.2.0
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DCW-GMT: The Digital Chart of the World for GMT

Authors/Creators

  • 1. SOEST, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  • 2. Instituto de Geociencias Básicas, Aplicadas y Ambientales de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 3. Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas - UNLP, Argentina

Description

The Digital Chart of the World is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000 scale vector basemap of the world. The charts were designed to meet the needs of pilots and air crews in medium- and low-altitude en route navigation and to support military operational planning, intelligence briefings, and other needs. For basic background information about DCW, see the Wikipedia entry.

DCW-GMT is an enhancement to DCW in a few ways:

  1. It contains more state boundaries (the largest 8 countries, Norway and United Kingdom are now represented).
  2. The data have been reformatted to save space and are distributed as a single deflated netCDF-4 file.

Notes

Funded by US National Science Foundation grants OCE-1558403 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558403

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Software: https://zenodo.org/record/5708769 (URL)

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
The EarthScope/GMT Analysis and Visualization Toolbox 1829371

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/dcw-gmt