The Generic Mapping Tools
Published June 18, 2025 | Version v0.16.0
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PyGMT: A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools

Creators

  • 1. China University of Geosciences, China
  • 2. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 3. Development Seed, USA
  • 4. Unaffiliated
  • 5. SNP Innovation Lab GmbH, Germany
  • 6. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
  • 7. University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
  • 8. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • 9. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
  • 10. Tel Aviv University
  • 11. US Geological Survey, USA
  • 12. Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
  • 13. University of Oregon, USA
  • 14. GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
  • 15. University College London

Description

PyGMT is a library for processing geospatial and geophysical data and making publication quality maps and figures. It provides a Pythonic interface for the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), a command-line program widely used in the Earth Sciences.

Notes

The development of PyGMT has been supported by NSF grants OCE-1558403 and EAR-1948602.

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt (URL)

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
A Sustainable Plan for the Future of the Generic Mapping Tools 1948602

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active