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Index
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
The GMT Documentation Project
A Reminder
Copyright and Caveat Emptor!
Typographic conventions
1. Preface
2. Introduction
References
3. GMT overview and quick reference
3.1 GMT summary
3.2 GMT quick reference
4. General features
4.1 GMT Units
4.2 GMT defaults
4.3 Command Line Arguments
4.4 Standardized command line options
4.5 Command Line History
4.6 Usage messages, syntax- and general error messages
4.7 Standard Input or File, header records
4.8 Verbose Operation
4.9 Output
4.10 PostScript Features
4.11 Landscape and Portrait Orientations
4.12 Overlay and Continue Modes
4.13 Specifying pen attributes
4.14 Specifying area fill attributes
4.15 Color palette tables
4.16 Character escape sequences
4.17 Embedded grdfile format specifications
4.18 Binary table i/o
5. GMT Projections
5.1 Non-map Projections
5.1.1 Cartesian Linear Projection (-Jx -JX)
5.1.2 Logarithmic projection
5.1.3 Power projection
5.1.4 Geographical linear projection
5.1.5 Linear Projection with Polar () Coordinates (-Jp -JP)
5.2 Conic Projections
5.2.1 Albers Conic Equal-Area Projection (-Jb -JB)
5.2.2 Lambert Conic Conformal Projection (-Jl -JL)
5.2.3 Equidistant Conic Projection (-Jd -JD)
5.3 Azimuthal Projections
5.3.1 Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (-Ja -JA)
5.3.2 Stereographic Equal-Angle Projection (-Js -JS)
5.3.3 Orthographic Projection (-Jg -JG)
5.3.4 Azimuthal Equidistant Projection (-Je -JE)
5.3.5 Gnomonic Projection (-Jf -JF)
5.4 Cylindrical Projections
5.4.1 Mercator Projection (-Jm -JM)
5.4.2 Transverse Mercator (-Jt -JT)
5.4.3 Universal Transverse Mercator UTM (-Ju -JU)
5.4.4 Oblique Mercator (-Jo -JO)
5.4.5 Cassini Cylindrical Projection (-Jc -JC)
5.4.6 Cylindrical Equidistant Projection (-Jq -JQ)
5.4.7 General Cylindrical Projections (-Jy -JY)
5.4.8 Miller Cylindrical Projections (-Jj -JJ)
5.5 Miscellaneous Projections
5.5.1 Hammer Projection (-Jh -JH)
5.5.2 Mollweide Projection (-Jw -JW)
5.5.3 Winkel Tripel Projection (-Jr -JR)
5.5.4 Robinson Projection (-Jn -JN)
5.5.5 Eckert IV and VI Projection (-Jk -JK)
5.5.6 Sinusoidal Projection (-Ji -JI)
5.5.7 Van der Grinten Projection (-Jv -JV)
6. Cook-book
6.1 The making of contour maps
6.2 Image presentations
6.3 Spectral estimation and xy-plots
6.4 A 3-D perspective mesh plot
6.5 A 3-D illuminated surface in black and white
6.6 Plotting of histograms
6.7 A simple location map
6.8 A 3-D histogram
6.9 Plotting time-series along tracks
6.10 A geographical bar graph plot
6.11 Making a 3-D RGB color cube
6.12 Optimal triangulation of data
6.13 Plotting of vector fields
6.14 Gridding of data and trend surfaces
6.15 Gridding, contouring, and masking of unconstrained areas
6.16 Gridding of data, continued
6.17 Images clipped by coastlines
6.18 Volumes and Spatial Selections
6.19 Color patterns on maps
6.20 Custom map symbols
7. Mailing lists, updates, and bug reports
A. GMT supplemental packages
A.1 dbase: gridded data extractor
A.2 gshhs: GSHHS data extractor
A.3 imgsrc: gridded altimetry extractor
A.4 meca: seismology and geodesy symbols
A.5 mex: Matlab-GMT interface
A.6 mgg: MGD77 extractor and plotting tools
A.7 misc: posters, patterns, and digitizing
A.8 segyprogs: Plotting SEGY seismic data
A.9 spotter: backtracking and hotspotting
A.10 x2sys: Track crossover error estimation
A.11 x_system: Track crossover error estimation
A.12 xgrid: visual editor for grdfiles
B. GMT file formats
B.1 Table data
B.1.1 ASCII tables
B.1.2 Binary tables
B.2 2-D grdfiles
B.2.1 File contents
B.2.2 Grid line and Pixel registration
B.2.3 Boundary Conditions for operations on grids
B.3 Sun raster files
C. Making GMT Encapsulated PostScript Files
D. Availability of GMT and related code
E. Predefined bit and hachure patterns in GMT
F. Chart of octal codes for characters
G. PostScript fonts used by GMT
H. Problems with display of GMT PostScript
H.1 PostScript driver bugs
H.2 Resolution and dots per inch
H.3 European characters
H.4 Hints
I. Color Space -- The final frontier
J. Filtering of data in GMT
K. The GMT High-Resolution Coastline Data
K.1 Selecting the right data
K.2 Format required by GMT
K.3 The long and winding road
K.4 The Five Resolutions
K.4.1 The crude resolution (-Dc)
K.4.2 The low resolution (-Dl)
K.4.3 The intermediate resolution (-Di)
K.4.4 The high resolution (-Dh)
K.4.5 The full resolution (-Df)
L. GMT on non-UNIX platforms
L.1 Introduction
L.2 Cygwin and GMT
L.3 DJGPP and GMT
L.4 WIN32 and GMT
L.5 OS/2 and GMT
L.6 MacOS and GMT
Index
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Paul Wessel 2006-02-28