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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
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Paul Wessel 2004-10-01