Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET)
MGET, also known as the GeoEco Python library, helps researchers access, manipulate, and analyze ecological and oceanographic data. MGET can be accessed through the GeoEco Python API or an associated ArcGIS geoprocessing toolbox.
MGET was developed by the Duke University Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab.
Installation
MGET requires 64-bit Python 3.9–3.12 running on Windows or Linux. For full
functionality, ArcGIS Pro 3.2.2 or later or ArcGIS Server 11.2 or later is
also required, along with some freely-available software. MGET can be
installed with pip install mget3, but please see the platform-specific
instructions below to ensure all prerequisites are met.
- Windows with ArcGIS Pro or Server
- Windows without ArcGIS
- Linux with ArcGIS Server
- Linux without ArcGIS
- Windows with Python 2.x and ArcGIS Desktop (no longer maintained)
Ⓘ Note
We are still in the process of porting MGET for Python 2.7 and ArcGIS Desktop to work with Python 3.x and ArcGIS Pro and Server. Not everything has been ported yet. If you have questions about something that is missing, please post a question to the discussion forum.
Usage Examples
Getting Help and Reporting Bugs
- If you have a question, please post to the discussion forum.
- If you find a bug, please report an issue.
Citation
MGET was originally documented by the following paper. Although much of the underlying software architecture has changed since 2010, the overall concept remains, of using Python to integrate useful code implemented in several languages and to expose it as an ArcGIS geoprocessing toolbox. If you find MGET is useful in your work, please cite this paper in your publication. If you are unable to access the paper, please email jason.roberts@duke.edu for a copy.
Roberts JJ, Best BD, Dunn DC, Treml EA, Halpin PN (2010) Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools: An integrated framework for ecological geoprocessing with ArcGIS, Python, R, MATLAB, and C++. Environmental Modelling & Software 25:1197–1207. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.029
Documentation
License
MGET uses the BSD-3-Clause open source software license. MGET incorporates other open source software. Please see the LICENSE file included with MGET for associated software license statements for these components. We are grateful to these developers for making their work freely reusable.