yishuihanshi / fatiando

Python toolkit for modeling and inversion in geophysics

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A Python package for modeling and inversion in geophysics.

Dependencies

For the moment, Fatiando runs and is tested in Python 2.7. To install and run Fatiando, you'll need the following packages:

• numpy >= 1.8
• scipy >= 0.14
• matplotlib >= 1.3
• IPython >= 2.0.0
• mayavi >= 4.3
• PIL >= 1.1.7
• basemap >= 1.0.7
• gcc >= 4.8.2

You can get all of these on Linux, Mac, and Windows through the Anaconda distribution. See file requirements.txt and the documentation.

Windows users: See the install docs for special instructions on getting the dependencies installed.

Installing

Download and install the latest release of Fatiando from PyPI:

pip install fatiando

or get the latest development version from Github:

pip install --upgrade https://github.com/fatiando/fatiando/archive/master.zip

Note: fatiando.__version__ has the current version number. If you install from PyPI, this will be something like '0.2'. If you installed from Github, this will be the latest commit hash. This way you can track exactly what version of Fatiando generated your results.

Citing

Fatiando is research software. If you use it in your research, please cite it in your publications as:

Uieda, L, Oliveira Jr, V C, Ferreira, A, Santos, H B; Caparica Jr, J F (2014),
Fatiando a Terra: a Python package for modeling and inversion in geophysics.
figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1115194

Some of the methods implemented here are also original research by some of the developers. Please also cite the method papers. See the CITATION.rst file for more information.

Read this blog post by Robin Wilson if you haven't heard of CITATION files.

Documentation

The latest documentation is available at ReadTheDocs. The docs reflects the master branch on Github.

http://fatiando.readthedocs.org

License

Fatiando a Terra is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License. A copy of this license is provided in LICENSE.txt.