Madagascar: open-source software project for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments

Authors

  • Sergey Fomel The University of Texas at Austin
  • Paul Sava Colorado School of Mines
  • Ioan Vlad TGS
  • Yang Liu Jilin University
  • Vladimir Bashkardin BP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.ag

Keywords:

reproducibility, geophysics, seismology, Python

Abstract

The Madagascar software package is designed for analysis of large-scale multidimensional data, such as those occurring in exploration geophysics. Madagascar provides a framework for reproducible research. By “reproducible research” we refer to the discipline of attaching software codes and data to computational results reported in publications. The package contains a collection of (a) computational modules, (b) data-processing scripts, and (c) research papers. Madagascar is distributed on SourceForge under a GPL v2 license https://sourceforge.net/projects/rsf/. By October 2013, more than 70 people from different organizations around the world have contributed to the project, with increasing year-to-year activity. The Madagascar website is http://www.ahay.org/.

Author Biographies

Sergey Fomel, The University of Texas at Austin

Professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences

Paul Sava, Colorado School of Mines

Associate Professor of Geophysics

Ioan Vlad, TGS

Advising Research Geophysicist at TGS

Yang Liu, Jilin University

Professor of Geophysics at Jilin University

Vladimir Bashkardin, BP

Geophysicist at BP

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Published

2013-11-21

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Software Metapapers

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