GemGIS - Spatial Data Processing for Geomodeling

The Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 7, pp. 3709

Abstract

GemGIS is an open-source Python package for processing spatial data for geological modeling.GemGIS wraps and extends the functionality of packages known to the geo-community such as GeoPandas, Rasterio, OWSLib, Shapely, PyGEOS, PyVista, Pandas, NumPy, the geomodelling package GemPy and others.The aim of GemGIS, as indicated by the name, is to become a bridge between conventional geoinformation systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS and QGIS, and currently open-source geomodelling tools such as GemPy, enabling simpler and more automated workflows from one software environment to the other.Next to the Github-hosted open-source repository, the package concludes a dedicated documentation page containing detailed installation instructions, tutorials for beginners and more advanced users and sample models to walk users through the entire workflow from creating the data to processing the data and to construct a structural geological model.These examples include the well-known Bennison maps for geological mapping.Functionality for visualizing 3D models is available through the PyVista package and through Blender in the near future.

Authors 5

1. Alexander Jüstel Aachen

   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies IEG · RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Fraunhofer IEG , Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG , Kockerellstraße 17 , 52062 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering , Wüllnerstraße 2 , 52062 Aachen , Germany

   Fraunhofer IEG, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG, Kockerellstraße 17, 52062 Aachen, Germany

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering, Wüllnerstraße 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany

2. Arthur Endlein Correira
   Affiliation as printed

   Geovariances LATAM , Av. Do Contorno , 7218 Sala 1201 , 30110-048 Belo Horizonte , Brazil

   Geovariances LATAM, Av. Do Contorno, 7218 Sala 1201, 30110-048 Belo Horizonte, Brazil

3. Marius Pischke Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering , Wüllnerstraße 2 , 52062 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering, Wüllnerstraße 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany

4. Miguel de la Varga
   Affiliation as printed

   Terranigma Solutions GmbH , Laurentiusstraße 59 , 52072 Aachen

   Terranigma Solutions GmbH, Laurentiusstraße 59, 52072 Aachen

5. Florian Wellmann Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering , Wüllnerstraße 2 , 52062 Aachen , Germany

   RWTH Aachen University , Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering, Wüllnerstraße 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany