API Reference

Gravity Corrections

bouguer_correction(topography[, ...])

Gravitational effect of topography using a Bouguer plate approximation

For the Normal Earth correction, see package boule.

Grid Transformations

Apply well known transformations regular gridded potential fields data.

derivative_easting(grid[, order, method])

Calculate the derivative of a regular grid in the easting direction

derivative_northing(grid[, order, method])

Calculate the derivative of a regular grid in the northing direction

derivative_upward(grid[, order])

Calculate the derivative of a potential field grid in the upward direction

upward_continuation(grid, height_displacement)

Calculate the upward continuation of a potential field grid

gaussian_lowpass(grid, wavelength)

Calculate the Gaussian low-pass of a potential field grid

gaussian_highpass(grid, wavelength)

Calculate the Gaussian high-pass of a potential field grid

reduction_to_pole(grid, inclination, declination)

Calculate the reduction to the pole of a magnetic field grid

Frequency domain filters

Define filters in the frequency domain.

filters.derivative_easting_kernel(fft_grid)

Filter for easting derivative in frequency domain

filters.derivative_northing_kernel(fft_grid)

Filter for northing derivative in frequency domain

filters.derivative_upward_kernel(fft_grid[, ...])

Filter for upward derivative in frequency domain

filters.upward_continuation_kernel(fft_grid, ...)

Filter for upward continuation in frequency domain

filters.gaussian_lowpass_kernel(fft_grid, ...)

Filter for Gaussian low-pass in frequency domain

filters.gaussian_highpass_kernel(fft_grid, ...)

Filter for Gaussian high-pass in frequency domain

filters.reduction_to_pole_kernel(fft_grid, ...)

Filter for reduction to the pole in frequency domain

Use xrft.xrft.fft and xrft.xrft.ifft to apply Fast-Fourier Transforms and its inverse on xarray.DataArray.

Equivalent Sources

EquivalentSources([damping, points, depth, ...])

Equivalent sources for generic harmonic functions (gravity, magnetics).

EquivalentSourcesGB([damping, points, ...])

Gradient-boosted equivalent sources for generic harmonic functions.

EquivalentSourcesSph([damping, points, ...])

Equivalent sources for generic harmonic functions in spherical coordinates

Forward modelling

point_gravity(coordinates, points, masses, field)

Compute gravitational fields of point masses.

prism_gravity(coordinates, prisms, density, ...)

Gravitational fields of right-rectangular prisms in Cartesian coordinates

tesseroid_gravity(coordinates, tesseroids, ...)

Compute gravitational field of tesseroids on computation points.

prism_layer(coordinates, surface, reference)

Create a layer of prisms of equal size

tesseroid_layer(coordinates, surface, reference)

Create a layer of tesseroids of equal size

DatasetAccessorPrismLayer(xarray_obj)

Defines dataset accessor for layer of prisms

DatasetAccessorTesseroidLayer(xarray_obj)

Define dataset accessor for layer of tesseroids

Isostatic Moho

isostatic_moho_airy(basement[, layers, ...])

Calculate the isostatic Moho depth using Airy's hypothesis.

Input and Output

load_icgem_gdf(fname, **kwargs)

Reads data from an ICGEM .gdf file.

load_oasis_montaj_grid(fname)

Reads gridded data from an Oasis Montaj© .grd file.

Visualization

visualization.prism_to_pyvista(prisms[, ...])

Create a pyvista.UnstructuredGrid out of prisms

Utilities

test([doctest, verbose, coverage, figures])

Run the test suite.