Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge these developers and projects for providing excellent free software, without which we would not be able to build Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools. Cheers to all of you!
- Guido van Rossum and his many collaborators for the Python programming language. Most of MGET is written in Python.
- Mark Hammond for the pywin32 Python package. MGET uses pywin32 to expose its classes as COM classes, to invoke other COM classes, to perform various installation tasks, and many other things.
- Travis Oliphant and his collaborators for the numpy Python package. MGET uses numpy extensively for manipulating data.
- The R core development team and their collaborators for the R programming language. Many parts of MGET rely on R.
- Walter Moreira and Gregory Warnes for the rpy Python package. MGET uses rpy to invoke R from Python.
- Peter Hollemans and his collaborators for the CoastWatch Utilities. All of the MGET tools that work with NOAA CoastWatch data invoke the CoastWatch Utilities.
- David Ullman, Jean-Francois Cayula, and Peter Cornillon for providing FORTRAN code illustrating the implementation of the Cayula and Cornillon (1992) single-image edge detection algorithm. We implemented our own version of this algorithm in C++ for use in MGET's SST front detection tools.
- Stephanie Henson for providing MATLAB code illustrating how to identify eddies using the Okubo-Weiss parameter. We implemented our own version of this for MGET's eddy detection tools.
- Tobias Sing, Oliver Sander, Niko Beerenwinkel, and Thomas Lengauer for the ROCR R package. MGET uses ROCR to plot the ROC and other performance measures for binary classification models.
- Frank Warmerdam and his collaborators for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL). MGET uses GDAL to read various geospatial data formats.
- Howard Butler for the GDAL Python bindings (the osgeo Python package). MGET uses these to invoke GDAL from Python code.
- Timothy H. Keitt, Roger Bivand, Edzer Pebesma, and Barry Rowlingson for the rgdal R package. MGET uses rgdal to invoke GDAL from R code.
- Gerald Evenden and Frank Warmerdam for the PROJ4 cartographic projections library. MGET uses PROJ4 to perform projections and great circle distance calculations.
- Jeff Whitaker for the netcdf4-python package and the pyproj Python package. MGET uses these packages to read netCDF files and invoke PROJ4 from Python.
- David Goodger and his collaborators for the docutils Python package. MGET uses docutils to build documentation from reStructuredText embedded in Python code.
- The developers of the libxml and libxslt libraries. MGET uses these to build HTML documentation from XML produced by docutils.
- The developers of the netCDF data format and software libraries. MGET uses these to read geospatial data.
- The developers of the HDF data format and software libraries. MGET uses these to read geospatial data.
