FOSS for Hydrographic Programmers

Hydrographic/Oceanographic Organizations on GitHub

• HydrOffice
• ausseabed
• noaa-ocs-hydrography
• Rijkswaterstaat
• UK Hydrographic Office
• pyoceans
• OpenNavigationSurface

Data Readers

• GDAL (python) - this is the pypi library for GDAL (C/C++), a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats
• PDAL (python) - this is the pypi library for PDAL (C/C++), a library for translating and manipulating point cloud data. It is very much like the GDAL library which handles raster and vector data.
• ausseabed/pyall (python) - an ausseabed native python reader for Kongsberg ALL file format (note that this is a maintained fork of pktrigg/pyall)
• valschmidt/kmall (python) - a native python reader for Kongsberg KMALL file format (note that there is also a fork ausseabed/kmall maintained by ausseabed)
• pyxtf (python) - A python library for reading and writing eXtended Triton Format (XTF) files
• OpenNavigationSurface/BAG (python/C/C++) - the reference implementation for the BAG format maintained by OpenNavigationSurface, GDAL includes this reference implementation.
• hyo2_bag (python) - a HydrOffice library for the BAG format
• hyo2_soundspeed (python) - a HydrOffice library to read, write, and manage sound speed profiles from a diverse set of formats
• gpsparser (python) - a Python GPS NMEA string parsing module.
• gsfpy (python) - Python wrapper for the C implementation of the Generic Sensor Format library.

Data Analysis/Processing

• Pydro (python) - a packaged distribution of an extensive toolset for working with hydrographic data, this is maintained and distributed by noaa-ocs-hydrography and HydrOffice.
• pandas (python) - pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool for python
• MB-System (C/C++) - an open source software package for the processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived from multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonars.
• kluster (python) - a fully functional MBES processor for Kongsberg ALL and KMALL files from noaa-ocs-hydrography.

Aquisition Interfacing

• hyo2_kng (python) - a HydrOffice library and apps for Kongsberg Maritime's SIS data interaction
• 7k (C/C++) - Teledyne Marine 7k protocol for marine sensor interfacing (requires access aproval, see Teledyne-Marine/access)

Data Download

• noaa_coops (python) - Python wrapper for NOAA CO-OPS Tides & Currents Data

Specialized Tools

• pyBathySfM (python) - python tool for performing bathymetric refraction correction on Structure from Motion datasets.
• pyproj (python) - Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library)
• enc_dump (python) - A python tool for extracting data from US Electronic Nautical Charts (based on GDAL)