Contents

• INTRODUCTION
  • GMT overview: History, philosophy, and usage
    • Historical highlights
    • Philosophy
    • Why is GMT so popular?
    • GMT installation considerations
  
  
• 1. SESSION ONE
  • 1.1 Tutorial setup
  • 1.2 The GMT environment: What happens when you run GMT?
    • 1.2.1 Input data
    • 1.2.2 Job Control
    • 1.2.3 Output data
  • 1.3 The UNIX Environment: Entry Level Knowledge
    • 1.3.1 Redirection
    • 1.3.2 Piping ()
    • 1.3.3 Standard error (stderr)
    • 1.3.4 File name expansion or ``wild cards''
  • 1.4 Laboratory Exercises
    • 1.4.1 Linear projection
    • 1.4.2 Logarithmic projection
    • 1.4.3 Mercator projection
    • 1.4.4 Albers projection
    • 1.4.5 Orthographic projection
    • 1.4.6 Eckert IV and VI projection
  
  
• 2. SESSION TWO
  • 2.1 General Information
    • 2.1.1 Examples
    • 2.1.2 Exercises
    • 2.1.3 More exercises
  • 2.2 Plotting text strings
  • 2.3 Exercises
  
  
• 3. SESSION THREE
  • 3.1 Contouring gridded data sets
    • 3.1.1 Exercises
  • 3.2 Gridding of arbitrarily spaced data
    • 3.2.1 Nearest neighbor gridding
    • 3.2.2 Gridding with Splines in Tension
    • 3.2.3 Preprocessing
  • 3.3 Exercises
  
  
• 4. SESSION FOUR
  • 4.1 Cpt files
    • 4.1.1 Exercises
  • 4.2 Illumination and intensities
  • 4.3 Color images
    • 4.3.1 Exercises
  • 4.4 Perspective views
    • 4.4.1 Mesh-plot
    • 4.4.2 Color-coded view
  
  
• 5. References
• Index
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