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Madagascar is an open-source software package for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments. Its mission is to provide

  • a convenient and powerful environment
  • a convenient technology transfer tool

for researchers working with digital image and data processing in geophysics and related fields. Technology developed using the Madagascar project management system is transferred in the form of recorded processing histories, which become "computational recipes" to be verified, exchanged, and modified by the users.

Features[edit]

Modern
Modern

Madagascar is a modern package. It started in 2003 and was publicly released in 2006. It was developed almost entirely from scratch. It is a relatively new package that follows modern software engineering practices such as module encapsulation and test-driven development. The rapid growth of a project of this scope (more than 1,000 main programs and more than 5,000 tests) would not be possible without standing on the shoulders of giants and learning from the 30 years of previous experience in open packages such as SEPlib and Seismic Unix. We have borrowed and reimplemented functionality and ideas from these other packages.

Test-driven
Test-driven

Madagascar is a test-driven package. Test-driven development is not only an agile software programming practice but also a way of bringing a scientific foundation to geophysical research that involves numerical experiments. Bringing reproducibility and peer review, the backbone of any real science, to computational geophysics is the primary motivation for Madagascar's development. The package consists of two levels: low-level main programs (typically developed in the C programming language and working as data filters) and high-level processing flows (described using the Python programming language) that combine main programs and unambiguously document data processing histories for testing and reproducibility. Experience shows that high-level programming is easily mastered even by beginning students without any previous programming experience.

Open
Open

Madagascar is an open-source package. It is distributed under the standard GPL open-source license, which does not restrict the usage and modification of the code. Moreover, access to modifying the source repository is not controlled by one organization but shared equally among developers. Sharing the responsibility enables an open collaboration among different groups spread worldwide, in the true spirit of the open-source movement.

Simple,flexible
Simple,flexible

Madagascar uses a simple, flexible, and universal data format that can handle very large datasets but is not tied specifically to seismic data or any other particular kind. This "regularly sampled" format is borrowed from the traditional SEPlib. A universal data format allows us to share general-purpose data processing tools with scientists and engineers from other disciplines.

Latest News[edit]

Effects of lateral heterogeneity on time-domain processing parameters
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Effects of lateral heterogeneity on time-domain processing parameters Time-domain processing of seismic reflection data has always...
2024-12-05 20:54:15
Well log interpolation guided by geologic distance
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Well log interpolation guided by geologic distance Seismic reflection images can be used to interpolate rock properties between we...
2024-12-05 20:52:35
Estimation of timeshifts in time-lapse seismic images using spectral decomposition
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Estimation of timeshifts in time-lapse seismic images using spectral decomposition Time-lapse timeshifts are difficult to measure ...
2024-12-05 20:51:13
Least-squares non-stationary triangle smoothing
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Least-squares non-stationary triangle smoothing We propose a fast and accurate method to estimate the radius of non-stationary tri...
2024-12-05 20:49:26
Investigating the possibility of locating microseismic sources using distributed sensor networks
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Investigating the possibility of locating microseismic sources using distributed sensor networks Distributed sensor networks are d...
2024-12-05 20:45:56
Using well-seismic mistie to update the velocity model
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Using well-seismic mistie to update the velocity model We propose a method to aid in velocity model building based on misties betw...
2024-12-05 20:44:26
Full waveform inversion of passive seismic data for sources and velocities
An old paper is added to the collection of reproducible documents: Full waveform inversion of passive seismic data for sources and velocities From the seismic imaging point of view, the difficulty ...
2024-12-05 20:42:44