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NAG in Earth Sciences

The earth sciences, geology and oceanography increasingly need to manipulate, analyse and visualise large amounts of data accurately, for which NAG's software is ideally placed to provide a range of solutions. In fact, organisations such as The Centre for Atmospheric Research at University of Cambridge, Swedish Nuclear Fuels and Waste Management, and the Geology Department at the University of Minnesota, depend upon NAG software.

"IRIS Explorer has significantly changed the way I understand my data, and I really can't imagine working without it now."
Dr Stuart Rankin of the Dept. of Applied Maths + Theo Physics, at Cambridge

Why use NAG

In such a highly competitive market, NAG's tools can offer you a vital edge. NAG draws on its broad experience of numerical and statistical problem solving; thus, for example the solution to a problem for an investment bank in the US can be just as applicable for an earth sciences organisation in the UK.

For those who don't want to develop their own application or need advice on numerical analysis NAG offers software development and numeric computation expertise through the Consulting Service.

Earth science organisations already draw on the full range of software tools from NAG, particularly visualisation, high-performance computing and numerical software.

Visualisation

The human brain understands images far better than it does numbers. Scientists can often interpret and make decisions far quicker by looking at their data represented in graphical format rather than as numbers on a page. They can also spot patterns that would otherwise be missed. NAG's longstanding work in the field of data visualisation means that the software can be easily implemented and integrated into existing systems. NAG's IRIS Explorer™ is a simple, yet powerful visualisation package designed to do just this.

Paul Morin of the University of Minnesota's Geology Department uses IRIS Explorer with his students to visualize earth sciences data, including studies of earthquakes, digital elevation maps and global heat flow.

"As datasets grow larger and larger, interactive visualisation becomes an important part of the scientific process, we need a fully functional, affordable visualisation application environment. We need software that can be on everyone's desk. IRIS Explorer fits both of these needs perfectly."

Read more about this work on NAG's case study for the University of Minnesota.

Numerical Software

NAG's libraries provide a broad range of reliable and robust numerical and statistical routines in areas such as curve and surface fitting, interpolation and PDEs to name but a few. By using these libraries organisations know that they will save development time and protect their investment in application development.