Walter H. F. Smith

Walter H. F. Smith is a geophysicist, currently working in NOAA's Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry.

[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.

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