University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute

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

Lab 11: GMT Mapping and Plotting

Data

• Alaska faults
• GPS Velocities wrt NOAM (Freymueller et al. 2008)
• ETOPO 5 DEM
• NEIC Earthquakes 2011

Assignment

Send me scripts/commands to produce three maps and at least one x-y plot. You're welcome to choose from the options I am giving below, or come up with your own maps, mapping your own datasets. If you plot your own data, send these as well!

Running the VirtualBox

Check here if you forgot how that works. Really. Go there if you forgot something.

Simple Plotting

Go to the presentations slides and find the slides that create the simple Alaska maps including coastline. Experiment with with the Alaska example and add your own data.

Now plot these data in an x-y-Plot (see lecture slide example, again)

Play with a prepared example

• Download all the datasets listed above
• Into the same directory download alaska.sh and make it executable with chmod +x alaska.sh
• Play with it. If your're plotting all data, in a certain projection, you'll get this map: alaska.pdf

Reproduce E. Calais' Worldmap example

• Follow the example that involves etopo5.grd given in these slides: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ecalais/teaching/gmt/GMT_6.pdf
• Try to recreate the fancy shaded world topo map