Links

• Grid map formats (GIS) supported by gstat:
  • csf library, used for PCRaster (csf is no longer included in gstat source tree)
  • GRASS
  • GDAL (from gstat 2.4.2; still experimental)
  • GMT
  • Surfer
  • ArcInfo (asciigrid, gridascii, e00)
  • Idrisi
  • ER Mapper
• Libraries, used by gstat
  • (packed in gstat source tree) meschach matrix library, used for all matrix computations
  • csf API library (no longer packed)
  • (optional) ncurses or pdcurses
  • (optional) GISLIB (for GRASS maps)
  • (optional) netcdf (for GMT maps)
  • (optional) gd graphics library: gif version (1.2-1.4), png version (requires libpng and zlib)
  • GDAL (from gstat 2.4.2; still experimental)
• ai-geostats.org: links to more free or low-cost geostats software are found at Gregoire Dubois' software list.
• freegis.org: the leading Free Software GIS portal
• gnuplot sources and binaries. One gnuplot FAQ is found here, and more information is found here. The development version of gnuplot is found at sourcefourge.net.
• GIFMerge: for the creation of animated gif's map2gif assumes you must have a binary executable of GIFMerge in your search path.
• For gzip, check out www.gzip.org.
• For (de-)compressing files with the .zip-format download free unzip software from info-zip.org, or download pkzip (shareware) from www.pkware.com/shareware. Alternatively, you can download winzip from www.winzip.com/tucows.
• older gstat distributions: gstat 2.0g, gstat 1.9g, gstat 1.9j