Walter H. F. Smith

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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.

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.

He is a co-founder of the Generic Mapping Tools, and maintains the GSHHG.^[1]

Selected research[]

• Wessel, Paul, et al. "Generic mapping tools: improved version released." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94.45 (2013): 409–410.
• Wessel, Paul, and Walter HF Smith. "New, improved version of Generic Mapping Tools released." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 79.47 (1998): 579-579.
• Smith, Walter HF, and David T. Sandwell. "Global sea floor topography from satellite altimetry and ship depth soundings." Science 277.5334 (1997): 1956–1962.
• Wessel, Paul, and Walter HF Smith. "Free software helps map and display data." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 72.41 (1991): 441–446.

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