Editing Other open-source geophysical packages

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The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_geophysics_software Wikipedia list of free geophysics software] provides an up-to-date list of all free geophysical packages in general. Therefore, this section only lists packages that do not forbid usage by commercial entities, and that can interact with Madagascar in a meaningful way, such as:
* providing a graphical interface that can be used to build Madagascar workflows
* importing and exporting [[RSF_Comprehensive_Description | RSF]] datasets directly, without the need to convert to SEG-Y
* being licensed so that Madagascar developers can link to their libraries or include their code directly, in a manner compatible with the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gpl GPL]

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==Comprehensive seismic processing suites==
These suites include a wide range of algorithms and tools, covering most of the needs of a seismic data processing and imaging researcher at the time when they were developed.

* [http://timna.mines.edu/cwpcodes/ Seismic Unix] (BSD-style license), maintained by John Stockwell ([http://www.cwp.mines.edu/ Center for Wave Phenomena, Colorado School of Mines])
* [http://sepwww.stanford.ed/doku.php?id=sep:software:seplib SEPlib] (BSD-style license), maintained by Bob Clapp at the [http://sep.stanford.edu/doku.php Stanford Exploration Project] (SEP)
* [http://www.freeusp.org/ Free USP], a processing package originally developed by Amoco and released by BP
* [http://www.freeusp.org/DDS/ DDS] (Data Dictionary System), also released by BP.
* [http://cpseis.org/ CPSeis], the former processing system of ConocoPhillips

==Specialized tools==
There are also other publicly available packages, with a smaller number of utilities than the ones described above, but each having unique capabilities, in its own way. Browsing [http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=567 SourceForge's Earth Sciences section] may reveal others as well.

{| class="wikitable" align="center" cellspacing="0" border="1"
! colspan="4" style="background:#ffdead;" | [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL]-compatible licenses
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! Name || What it is || Written/maintained by ||  License
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| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/botoseis/ BotoSeis] || collection of interactive java programs for seismic data processing, which can also be used as a graphical user interface for Seismic Unix, Madagascar or other in-house programs || Williams Lima and others (Brasil) || GPL
|-	
|[http://www-old.dpr.csiro.au/StochasticSeismicInversion/index.html Delivery]|| Java-based Bayesian seismic inversion code for use in oil reservoir characterisation || CSIRO Petroleum, Australia || The copyright belongs to BHP Billiton and the package is distributed under a GPL+BSD license.
|-
| [http://www.gebrproject.com/ GeBR] || Environment for seismic data processing, designed to easily assemble and run processing flows. Has GUI based on C and GTK+ || Contributors from Brasil || GPL
|-	
| [http://geocomputing.narod.ru/benchmark.html GeoBenchmark] || Benchmark for how fast computers are when working with seismic processing and imaging algorithms. More details in "Computers for seismic processing and imaging: a performance study", by E. Kurin, Proceedings of the 2007 SEG Annual Meeting, 2451-2454 || Evgeny Kurin, Geolab Ltd. || public domain
|-	
| [http://gsegyview.sourceforge.net/ GSEGYView] || cross-platform SEG-Y data viewer with OpenGL graphics hardware acceleration || Vladimir Bashkardin (U. of Texas at Austin) || GPL
|-	
| [http://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gma/graf2segy.html image2segy] || Matlab program to transform a raster image of a seismic paper or film record to SEGY. Uses SegyMat. || Marcelli Farran (Institute of Marince Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) || Creative Commons
|-	
| [http://www.kogeo.de/ kogeo] || MS-Windows only toolkit that features data processing, project databases, interpretation tools, 3-D header manipulation and good visualization tools || Philipp Konerding (U. of Hamburg, Germany) || GPL
|-
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengpr/ openGPR] || Linux framework for the processing and 2D/3D-visualization of GPR data. Based on Seismic Unix, Python and QT4. Inactive since 2007. || Matthias Schuh, University of Tubingen, Germany || GPL
|-	
| [http://qiworkbench.org/ qiWorkbench] || extensible Java-based platform for implementing integrated workflows to process, analyze and view seismic data, originally designed by BHP Billiton to implement its integrated workflows to process, analyze and view seismic data || BHP, G&W, INT, CSM and CSIRO || GPL; BSD for APIs in order to allow closed-source commercial plugins
|-	
| [http://segymat.sourceforge.net/ SegyMAT] || toolbox to read and write SEG-Y data to and from Matlab and Octave || Thomas Mejer Hansen (U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) ||  LGPL
|-	
| [http://segymat.sourceforge.net/segypy/ SegyPy] || Python port of SegyMAT || same as SegyMAT || LGPL
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| [http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/software/seismic-py/ segy-py] || Python package for reading seismic SEGY files || Kurt Schwehr (U. of New Hampshire) || GPL
|-	
| [http://www-geo.phys.ualberta.ca/saig/SeismicLab/index.html SeismicLab] || Matlab toolbox that does preprocessing, imaging and plotting || Mauricio Sacchi (U. of Alberta, Canada) || GPL
|}

{| class="wikitable" align="center" cellspacing="0" border="1"
! colspan="4" style="background:#ffdead;" | GPL-incompatible or missing licenses
|-	
! Name || What it is || Written/maintained by || License
|-
| [http://geocraft.org/ GeoCraft] || Lightweight framework (with visualization) for rapidly prototyping and deploying new geoscience algorithms || ConocoPhillips Inc. || Custom (MIT-style)
|-	
| [http://sw3d.mff.cuni.cz/software/ SW3D] || good-quality ray-theory based package || SW3D consortium (Charles U., Czech Republic) ||  Not specified
|-	
| [http://www.mines.edu/~dhale/jtk/ Mines Java Toolkit] || set of Java packages and native (non-Java) code libraries for digital signal processing and 2-D and 3-D graphics || Dave Hale (Colorado School of Mines, USA) || Common Public License
|}

==Packages free for non-commercial use only==
* CREWES Educational Software Release
* IGeoS
* Jive3D
* JRG
* RayInvr