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IGMAS+ across years
The software has been around for about 40 years, initially developed on a mainframe and then transferred to the first DOS PCs, before it was adapted to Linux in the ’90s and finally implemented as a cross-platform Java application with GUI called IGMAS+.
Starting from 2009, a consortium of national and international oil companies and the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU) supported the software development. The Gravity research Group at the University of Kiel was coordinating the project and giving scientific input while the software company Transinsight (Dresden) delivered the professional programming resources and support.
Java was chosen to be the programming platform to allow platform independency. The software has proven to be very fast, accurate and easy to use once a model has been established. Later, the DGMK (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology) funded its research project number 771 entitled “TiPOT3D - Towards an integrative interpretation of potential fields and corresponding gradients by the aid of three-dimensional modelling and visualization” (Schmidt et al., 2018) and supported the software development on behalf of DEA, Deutsche Erdoel AG (Hamburg), EMPG (Hannover), ENGIE E&P Deutschland (Lingen) and Wintershall Holding GmbH (Kassel).
Since 2019 IGMAS+ has been maintained and developed in The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences by the staff of Section 4.5 – Subsurface Process Modelling and Section 5.2 – eScience Centre.
IGMAS+ development milestones
Issues, suggestions and concerns
We hope that IGMAS+ will be an important contribution to your scientific work towards an integrated, interdisciplinary interpretation of complex geological structures on the macro, meso and micro scale.
Although IGMAS+ has been tested by many users around the world, there could still be a number of bugs and issues. In the changelog of every release we highlight the issues that have been solved. More information can be found in the release posts.
We apologize for any inconvenience that IGMAS+ might cause due to unexpected problems, and we want to hear from you in case of any issue that you might experience. This means that we invite every user to become a tester in order to contribute to the further development, help us improve IGMAS+ and design a user-friendly graphical interface as you want it to be.
This is how you can contribute:
Please send your issue reports, suggestions and concerns (as well as log and system report files, comments etc.) to
We track all issues using GitLab instance of GFZ Potsdam.
Let us bring the IGMAS+ user experience to the next level together!