Python Geoscience Modelling and Interpretation


Keywords
Geoscience, Geophysics, Magnetic, Gravity, Modelling, Interpretation, Remote, Sensing
License
GPL-3.0
Install
pip install pygmi==2.4.1

Documentation

Overview

PyGMI stands for Python Geoscience Modelling and Interpretation. It is a modelling and interpretation suite aimed at magnetic, gravity, remote sensing and other datasets.

PyGMI is developed at the Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa).

It includes:

  • Magnetic and Gravity 3D forward modelling.
  • Cluster Analysis, including use of scikit-learn libraries.
  • Routines for cutting, reprojecting and doing simple modifications to data.
  • Convenient display of data using pseudo-color, ternary and sunshaded representation.
  • MT processing and 1D inversion using MTpy.
  • Gravity processing.
  • Seismological functions for SEISAN data.
  • Remote sensing ratios and improved imports.

It is released under the Gnu General Public License version 3.0

The PyGMI Wiki pages, include installation and full usage!

The latest release version can be found here.

You may need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.

If you have any comments or queries, you can contact the author either through GitHub or via email at pcole@geoscience.org.za

Requirements

PyGMI will run on both Windows and Linux. It should be noted that the main development is done in Python 3.11 on Windows.

PyGMI should still work with Python 3.9 and Python 3.10.

PyGMI is developed and has been tested with the following libraries in order to function:

  • python 3.11.6
  • discretize 0.10.0
  • fiona 1.9.5
  • gdal 3.8.2
  • geopandas 0.14.2
  • matplotlib 3.8.2
  • mtpy 1.1.5
  • natsort 8.4.0
  • numba 0.58.1
  • numexpr 2.8.8
  • numpy 1.26.3
  • openpyxl 3.1.2
  • pandas 2.1.4
  • psutil 5.9.7
  • pyogrio 0.7.2
  • pyopengl 3.1.7
  • pyproj 3.6.1
  • PyQt5 5.15.10
  • pytest 7.4.4
  • rasterio 1.3.9
  • scikit-image 0.22.0
  • scikit-learn 1.3.2
  • scipy 1.11.3
  • shapely 2.0.2
  • shapelysmooth 0.1.1
  • SimPEG 0.20.0.post2

Installation

General (Not Anaconda)

The easiest way to install pygmi if you are working in a python environment is to use the pip command as follows:

pip install pygmi

This will download pygmi from PyPI and install it within your python repository. Depending on your operating system, and which libraries you already have installed, you may need to follow instructions in sections below. Please note the use of pip when installing PyGMI may cause Anaconda installations to break. Anaconda users should follow the instructions below.

Running pygmi can be now done at the command prompt as follows:

pygmi

If you are in python, you can run PyGMI by using the following commands:

from pygmi.main import main

main()

If you prefer not to install pygmi as a library, download the source code and execute the following command to run it manually:

python quickstart.py

Windows Users

Installers are available in 64-bit

Alternatively, you can use the instructions above to run PyGMI with your local python installation. You may need to install some dependencies using downloaded binaries, because of compilation requirements. Therefore, if you do get an error, you can try installing precompiled binaries before installing PyGMI.

Examples of binaries you may need to get are:

  • numexpr
  • numba
  • llvmlite
  • GDAL
  • discretize
  • fiona

They can be obtained from the website by Christoph Gohlke.

Linux

Linux normally comes with python installed, but the additional libraries will still need to be installed.

Typically, packages can be installed using pip. The process is as follows:

sudo apt-get install pip

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

pip install cython

pip install numpy

pip install pygmi

Anaconda

Anaconda users are advised not to use pip since it can break PyQt5. However, one package is installed only by pip, so a Conda environment should be created.

The process to install is as follows:

conda create -n pygmi python=3.10

conda activate pygmi

conda config --add channels conda-forge

conda config --set channel_priority flexible

conda install pyqt

conda install numpy

conda install scipy

conda install matplotlib

conda install psutil

conda install numexpr

conda install pandas

conda install rasterio

conda install geopandas

conda install numba

conda install natsort

conda install scikit-learn

conda install scikit-image

conda install pyopengl

conda install simpeg

conda install shapelysmooth

conda install pyogrio

conda install openpyxl

pip install mtpy

conda update --all

Once this is done, download pygmi, extract (unzip) it to a directory, and run it from its root directory with the following command:

python quickstart.py