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This site is devoted to computing and other projects related to
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Research Related Links
- High-precision gravity research - this is
the pre-release site; it is not updated often, and generally arcane.
Feel free to browse.
- U.S. Time Zone GMT Offsets
- utah-g3d - a simple block-based 3d
gravity modeling engine; written in ANSI C and Python
- OPUS - NGS runs a free
GPS position analysis system based on RINEX data files and the CORS
continuous GPS network. Very useful for small projects needing only a
couple of positions.
- Moki Marbles - photos from a field trip to
photograph Moki Marbles (Fe concretions in sandstone) for an
image-processing project comparing Utah concretions to Mars.
- LCWTP Project - potential field surveys over
the Little Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant, SLC; includes data and a
lab exercise for students using GM-SYS.
- Automaton - a fuzzy-logic-based autopick
system for exploration seismic data. Not designed for automatic event
picking in continuous seismic data! Includes some code for SEGY file
I/O, which can be handy now and then.
- Class Web Pages - pages for classes I have TA'd;
contain information, graphs of scores, etc.
- Utah GIS Portal - includes topo
sheets, vector layers for roads and boundaries, etc.
- mathworld - web pages
describing most of theoretical math; very, very useful for the
scientist.
- Mesowest - Database of meteorological
data; IDIOTIC INTERFACE THAT PRECLUDES LARGE DATA TRANSFERS. Please
complain to the operators that only allowing single station downloads
for the last 2 weeks of data makes their entire concept utterly
worthless.
- U of
Utah Thesis/Dissertation Guidelines - PDF hosted by School of
Computing; 2002 version.
- U of Utah Thesis/Dissertation Latex
Files - Zipped archive of class, style, and examples for U Utah
thesis/dissertation in Latex; for 2e and newer LaTeX; please submit
revisions and improvements so others don't have to reinvent the
wheel.
- Computing Tutorials
- Intro to Programming - PDF
document written by a couple of GG grad students to help other grad
students really get into programming; focuses on how to setup problems
for solution by computer, rather than any single language. Also, the LaTeX source of the PDF is
available.
- Unix for Science - some notes on
getting the most out of a UNIX environment for scientists. Assumes a
very basic familiarity with UNIX-like environments. Postscript and LaTeX source also available.
- Matlab
tutorial - an introduction to Matlab, an excellent
general-purpose linear algebra environment. Matlab runs best (and
fastest) when you can make your problem into matrix and vector
operations; it can, however, do anything if you have to.
Except for the graphics handles, the tutorial applies to Octave as well. If you
don't want to buy Matlab, download Octave instead.
- Python Documentation
- on www.python.org
- Tkinter Documentation -
on www.python.org
- Java
Documentation - on java.sun.com
- Serial port data acquisition in Java
- Vincenty Formula for Distance on Earth -
compute distance, in m, between two points on the WGS84 ellipsoid.
- About terra
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