University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute

Beyond the Mouse 2010 - The geoscientist's computational chest.

12. GMT I -- mapping and plotting data

"Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavor."
Donald E. Knuth

Here we introduce you to the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) which create postscript files of maps with your data on them. GMT is a collection of Unix programs each of which filling a different need in the task of creating a neat looking (and scalable, after all it's postscript) map. Those tools are best orchestrated in shell scripts. They gain their power from many command line options that sometimes seem a little odd (read: complex). To get rid off overwhelming panic when first starting to use GMT we got this lecture, right?

Lecture

GMT 1 - mapping and plotting

Exercise (was also Lab 10)

See last slide in presentation; Bernie gives solutions for this in the presentation; the point was to use some of your own data in your own map space and data space.

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