U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program

Software tools and utilities

Code written by Peter Schweitzer:

• Formal metadata: tools, information, and examples

• Scientific applications
  • ANALOG: A program for estimating paleoclimate parameters using the method of modern analogs. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-645.
  • Counter: A program for automating faunal or floral census
  • XYP8: A bivariate plotting program for MS-DOS

• File format conversions
  • DLG: Code to read 1:2,000,000-scale USGS Digital Line Graphs
  • TXT: Converts text among UNIX, MS-DOS, and Mac
  • HDF: Displays contents of HDF file in more-or-less readable form
  • WKS: Displays contents of WKS file in more-or-less readable form
  • Hexdump: Displays contents of a file in hexadecimal
  • HextoBin: Converts a hexadecimal dump to binary
  • Color16u: Converts 16-bit unsigned BIL to PPM
  • Color16s: Converts 16-bit signed BIL to PPM
  • PSPrint: Converts plain text to PostScript

• Utilities
  • Reverse: reverses the order of lines in a file
  • Transpos: A program to transpose tab-delimited text files
  • Text viewer and utilities for MS-DOS
  • Xed: A multi-platform programmer's text editor