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GravTools

GravTools (grav-toolbox on PyPI) is a Python toolbox for processing relative gravity surveys, developed at Austria's Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV).

Features

  • Load gravimeter observation files (Scintrex CG-5, CG-6 in multiple formats)
  • Manage survey stations and gravimeter metadata
  • Apply tidal, atmospheric pressure, and height corrections
  • Run least-squares adjustment to estimate gravity values at stations
  • Estimate drift polynomials per survey
  • Export results to CSV and GIS formats (shapefile via geopandas)

Installation

pip install grav-toolbox

With optional GIS support:

pip install "grav-toolbox[gis]"

Source Code

https://github.com/ahellers/GravTools

Python Package

https://pypi.org/project/grav-toolbox/

Citing GravTools

If you use datasets computed with GravTools in a publication, please cite the following reference:

Hellerschmied, A., Zehetmaier, B. (2023): GravTools: A software toolbox for the analysis of relative gravity surveys, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023). https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-0864

Copyright (C) 2021 Andreas Hellerschmied (andreas.hellerschmied@bev.gv.at)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.