MatTaup: A TauP toolkit for MATLAB
Introduction
TauP is a Java based seismic travel time calculator, which is developed and maintained by H. Philip Crotwell at the University of South Carolina. MatTaup is a TauP toolkit for MATLAB users, and it is actually a set of interface programs that call TauP functions for travel time calculation. MatTaup contains several MATLAB functions and Java classes that make MATLAB functions communicate with TauP. Currently only the following five tools in TauP are implemented:
|
TauP Command |
MATLAB command | Description |
| taup | taup |
a GUI that incorporates the time, pierce and path tools. |
| taup_time | taupTime |
calculates travel times |
| taup_path | taupPath |
calculates ray paths, depth versus epicentral distance. |
| taup_pierce | taupPierce |
calculates pierce points at model discontinuities and specified depths |
| taup_curve | taupCurve |
calculates travel time curves, time versus epicentral distance. |
Running MatTaup requires MATLAB version 6.0 (R12) or above.
Download and Installation
MatTaup is free to download and use under the terms of
Gnu Public License.
Download from here (ZIP file, ~2MB).
To install MatTaup, you first need to uncompress the zip file into a directory where you wish MatTaup to be installed. Then you need to add directory "matTaup" into MATLAB search paths, and add the Java archive file "matTaup\lib\matTaup.jar" into MATLAB Java class paths by modifying "classpath.txt". After you restart MATLAB, MatTaup is ready to use. Use MATLAB help command for usages.
MatTaup is already included in FMI (FISSURES-MATLAB Interface). You do not need to install MatTaup if you have installed FMI.
Contact
MatTaup is written and maintained by Qin Li at the University of Washington.
Please send any question, comment or bug report to
qinli@u.washington.edu
Last update: 04/15/2004