Julia in geosciences/Earth System sciences

[Fabian Gans]

Hello everyone,

this seems to be the time where more and more topical julia mailing lists and gitHub projects evolve. I wanted to ask if there is interest in
having a group that brings together people (and hopefully more packages) with a geoscience/Earth System Science and modelling background.

I think there is a lot of potential work, e.g. wrapping GDAL, which has been mentioned before https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/Y44dSdgoG9w/Vm7o82nlvXMJ or improving spatial plots, map projections ...

So give a short note if you are interested in such a topical group. If there is some feedback, I (or someone else) will create a julia-geo mailing list, where we could continue discussions.

Fabian

[Adrian Cuthbertson]

Hi Fabian,

I have a particular interest in satellite remote sensing and related Earth Science applications. I'm overcommitted over the next few weeks, but I have done some related Julia work which I hope to open-source and contribute after that. I will definitely participate in due course if such a group is created.

Regards, Adrian

[Mauro]

I'm interested and would sign up. (although I haven't used julia for work yet) Mauro

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 09:21, fabia...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> this seems to be the time where more and more topical julia mailing lists
> and gitHub projects evolve. I wanted to ask if there is interest in
> having a group that brings together people (and hopefully more packages)
> with a geoscience/Earth System Science and modelling background.
>
> I think there is a lot of potential work, e.g. wrapping GDAL, which has
> been mentioned before

> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/Y44dSdgoG9w/Vm7o82nlvXMJor improving spatial plots, map projections ...

[J Luis]

I am also interested in this subject where my particular interest would be in creating a GMT5 wrapper, which indirectly would give access to some parts of GDAL but off course a GDAL wrapper would be of most interest.

Joaquim

[Will Kearney]

I've been working on some Julia implementations of my own coastal geomorphology work and thinking a little about whether there might be room (and time) to build some of it into a more fully-fledged geosciences infrastructure. I'm definitely up for a julia-geo group.

Will Kearney

[Martijn Visser]

I would also subscribe to a julia-geo mailing list, it would be a good place to coordinate building a good environment for doing our type of work. My particular interest is mostly hydrology.

[bobnn...@gmail.com]

I would also be interested in this group. I do atmospheric science (modeling, climate, etc) and see the limited graphics in julia as the biggest limitation to using it for research.

Bob

[Bradley Alpert]

The extensive graphics capability in Matplotlib for Python is an excellent interim solution through the Julia package PyPlot.  I use it every day.

[Fabian Gans]

Thanks for the replies and updates on ongoing activities.

I just created a new julia-geo mailing list.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/julia-geo

Fabian