Walter H. F. Smith is a geophysicist, currently working in NOAA's Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. He was formerly Chair of the scientific and technical sub-committee of GEBCO from 2003 to 2013.[1]

Smith earned a BSc at the University of Southern California, and an MA, MPhil and PhD degrees at Columbia University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography until joining NOAA in 1992.[2] Smith is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, nominated for his contributions to marine geodesy.[3]

Along with Pål Wessel, Smith created the Generic Mapping Tools, an open-source collection of computer software tools for processing and displaying geographic and Cartesian datasets.[4] Smith and Wessel developed and maintain the Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database.[5]

Selected research

References

  1. ^ "Technical Sub-Committee of Ocean Mapping (TSCOM)". GEBCO. 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Walter H.F. Smith - Satellite Oceanography & Climatology Division". NOAA. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  3. ^ "UNION FELLOWS". American Geophysical Union. Archived from the original on March 10, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  4. ^ Wessel; Smith (1998). "New, improved version of generic mapping tools released". EOS. 79 (47). American Geophysical Union: 579. Bibcode:1998EOSTr..79..579W. doi:10.1029/98EO00426.
  5. ^ Wessel; Smith (1996). "A global, self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resolution shoreline database" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 101 (B4). American Geophysical Union: 8741–8743. Bibcode:1996JGR...101.8741W. doi:10.1029/96JB00104. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
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