Hi Steko (and list), (I apologise in advance - despite the .it in the email address, I hadn't realised this was an Italian email list. I studied Italian for quite some time when I was younger... sadly it's been forgotten!)
Thank you to everyone who replied. To clarify- data is downloaded from instruments using proprietary Windows-based software and saved in .csv or .txt files, which I would then like to import into appropriate data processing free software in Linux, with output to an image file for report creation. At this stage, I am working with magnetic, electromagnetic, resistivity and ground-penetrating radar data. I also use Trimble RTK GPS to create Digital Elevation Models, upon which I would like to overlay the geophysical data plots. In the past, I have used Windows-based proprietary GIS Global Mapper, but would like to see what is available in Linux. Thanks again for the replies that I received. Best wishes, David. David Hunter Director | Hunter Geophysics Archaeological geophysicists based in Melbourne. Mob.: (+61) 0488 501 261 [email protected] PO Box 1445 | Central Park, VIC 3145 | Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Stefano Costa Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Arch geophysics Il giorno dom, 02/05/2010 alle 02.43 +1000, David Hunter ha scritto: > > Hi all on the Linux archaeology list! > > I was wondering if anyone is aware of any archaeological geophysics > data processing freeware compatible with Linux (any distro). I use > Ubuntu, but am willing to distro-hop if I can get the right program. > Hi David, I have never worked with geophysical tools and data, but at CAA in Granada last month I saw Kenneth Kvamme doing a short demonstration of GPR data processing with common GIS software. He strongly advocated against the use of "black-box" data processing tools, and I'm inclined to agree with him. He was using IDRISI, on GNU/Linux you will find QGIS +GRASS or gvSIG to be good programs. Another question is if you also need to get raw data from your measurement tools. If you tell us a bit more about your workflow, we can give more specific hints. You will also want to read this short and gentle introduction to "Free and non-Free software" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html and see how "freeware" is different from "free software". We like the latter :) Ciao, steko -- Stefano Costa http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology -- Mailing list info: http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/archaeology
