pyGIMLi is an open-source library for modelling and inversion and in geophysics. The object-oriented library provides management for structured and unstructured meshes in 2D and 3D, finite-element and finite-volume solvers, various geophysical forward operators, as well as Gauss-Newton based frameworks for constrained, joint and fully-coupled inversions with flexible regularization.

What is pyGIMLi suited for?

• analyze, visualize and invert geophysical data in a reproducible manner
• forward modelling of (geo)physical problems on complex 2D and 3D geometries
• inversion with flexible controls on a-priori information and regularization
• combination of different methods in constrained, joint and fully-coupled inversions
• teaching applied geophysics (e.g. in combination with Jupyter notebooks)

What is pyGIMLi NOT suited for?

• for people that expect a ready-made GUI for interpreting their data

Binaries (Windows)

See binaries on https://www.pygimli.org/installation.html#win

For Anaconda users (currently Linux only)

# Add gimli and conda-forge channels (only once)
conda config --add channels gimli --add channels conda-forge

# Install pygimli
conda install -f pygimli

# Test pygimli
python -c "import pygimli; pygimli.test()"

# Update pygimli
conda update -f pygimli

Install via curl

curl -Ls install.pygimli.org | bash

Import convention

import pygimli as pg
print(pg.__version__)

Check www.pygimli.org for additional information, detailed installation instructions and many examples.

Citing pyGIMLi

If you use pyGIMLi for your work, please cite as:

Rücker, C., Günther, T., Wagner, F.M., 2017. pyGIMLi: An open-source library for modelling and inversion in geophysics, Computers and Geosciences, 109, 106-123, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.011 (Download PDF).

BibTeX code:

@article{Ruecker2017,
  title = "{pyGIMLi}: An open-source library for modelling and inversion in geophysics",
  journal = "Computers and Geosciences",
  volume = "109",
  number = "",
  pages = "106--123",
  year = "2017",
  issn = "0098-3004",
  doi = "10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.011",
  url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300417300584",
  author = "Carsten R\"ucker and Thomas G\"unther and Florian M. Wagner"
}

License

pyGIMLi is distributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. Details on the license agreement can be found here.