An inventory of Mapping, Modeling, Visualization Software

Click here to go to a list of MMV Lab draft budget priorities at the bottom of this document.
A list of software obtained by Jim Trexler.

Vis5D - volume and surface visualization and animation, free for UNIX (Sun 4.1 or later, SGI 4.0.1 or later, LINUX, ?).

WinSeis - Basic seismic processing, $940 educ. 1st copy, $800 addl. copies for MS-Win.

Surface III - Map contouring, gridding, kriging, fitting, $??? for Mac.

Wheat - Map display and analysis, free for MS-Win, NT.

SiteView - 3-d visualization from GIS and CAD, $500-$1000 for Sun, MS-Win.

GRASS - GIS, free for UNIX (DEC-alpha, LINUX, ?), WinNT, Mac?

Persistence of Vision - ray-trace renderer, free for UNIX, LINUX, DOS, Mac. Modeling software is various.

ERmapper - image processing (satellite), $3000 acad. lic. for Sun, SGI, Win95 & NT. Imports DEM, ARC-INFO, AutoCAD, etc.

ARC/INFO - GIS, $10,000? for UNIX (SGI, Sun), MS-Win. GeoData import package.

GenaMap - GIS, $? for UNIX, PC?.

AutoCAD - GIS, CAD, for UNIX (SGI, Sun), WinNT, Win95. Separate Win95 modeling tools $3000.

Landmark Geoworks - GIS, >$10,000? for UNIX, Argus pkg for MS-Win.

Advance ProMAX - 3-D seismic processing and interpretation, $20,000 acad. for UNIX.

UCSC REINAS - Env. data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, free source for UNIX.

SGI Wavefront Data Visualizer - volume and vector visualization, ~$10,000 acad. lic. for UNIX.

NAG IRIS Explorer - module-driven visualization, $?, for SGI, Sun.

AVS - module-driven visualization, $?, for SGI, Sun.

Stony Brook VolVis - volume visualization, source free for UNIX, LINUX.

PV-Wave - data and numerical visualization, $?, for UNIX, WinNT & 95.

IMSL - numerical and graphical programming library, $?, for UNIX, WinNT & 95, Mac.

IBM Visualization Data Explorer - data visualization and analysis, $5000 acd. lic. for SGI, Sun.

DRAFT MMV Lab Budget Priorities

Software list

Application			Software			total	year 1

Digitization			?				$500?
Utilities and word processing	Norton, MS Office Pro, sys	1200	$1200
Image proc. and presentation	Adobe Photoshop, Illus, Canvas	4800	2800
Image analysis			ER Mapper			4000	2500
GIS				ARC/INFO			1500	1500
Satellite data			ER Mapper
Mapping display and anal	atlas programs			1000?	
Geophysical modeling		GM-SYS				10000	1000
Seismic processing, analysis	Pro-MAX				20000
3-d modeling and visualization	IBM Vis. Data Expl.? AutoCAD?	5000	3000
Geologic modeling		Rockware?
Mathematical analysis		MatLAB, Deltagraph		6500	3000
Statistics			? (UNR licenses?)

	Software total							$15000

Peripherals list

Peripheral		year1

Writable CD		$2000
Kodak digital camera	1000
DAT tape stacker	2500
CD-ROM carousel		1000
Video camera & grabber	2000
Color scanner		1000
Slide camera		8000

	Peripherals	$17500

Hardware list

Machine			year1

Sun file server		$20000
SGI visual. server	10000
3 Macs @$4800 ea	14400
3 PCs @$4800 ea		14400

	HW total	$58800

Summary

Item			First-Year Cost

Software		 $15000
Peripherals		  17500
Databases on CD		   5000
Hardware		  58800

First-Year Total	 $96300