fatiando 0.0.1

Geophysical direct and inverse modeling

Fatiando a Terra provides command-line tools and an API for a variety of geophysical modeling applications. It makes heavy use of Numpy for linear algebra operations, provides a high level interface to visualise your data and results using Matplotlib for 2D and Mayavi2 for 3D. Optimized code is written in Fortran and C and wrapped to Python using Numpy’s f2py.

For more information and online documentation, visit http://www.fatiando.org

Downloading and Installing

Fatiando requires:

• numpy

• scipy

• matplotlib

• PIL

• mayavi

All of these can be easily found in most GNU/Linux distros. You will also need the Python header files (called python-dev in Debian and Ubuntu) and a C compiler (GCC comes with almost every distro).

After you’ve installed the dependencies you can proceed to install Fatiando using pip (remember to install pip before if don’t have it):

pip install fatiando

That’s it! Alternatively, you can run the setup.py script:

python setup.py install

The team

Fatiando is being developed by a group of geophysics graduates from the Universidade de Sao Paulo and the Observatorio Nacional in Brazil. Work done here is part of some Masters and Phd projects.

See http://www.fatiando.org/people for a list of people involved.

License

Fatiando a Terra is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license is provided in file LICENSE.txt