Walter H. F. Smith

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.

References
  1. "Walter H.F. Smith - Satellite Oceanography & Climatology Division". NOAA. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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