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Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Prefaces
Preface to version 3.3.3 (December-1999)
Major bug fixes in 3.3.3
Minor changes in 3.3.3
Preface to version 3.3.2 (September-1999)
Major bug fixes in 3.3.2
Minor changes in 3.3.2
Coastlines in 3.3.2
Preface to version 3.3.1 (July-1999)
Major bug fixes in 3.3.1
Minor changes in 3.3.1
New features in 3.3.1
Supplemental archive in 3.3.1
Coastlines in 3.3.1
Preface to version 3.3 (June-1999)
Major bug fixes in 3.3
New features in 3.3
Preface to version 3.2 (March-1999)
Major bug fixes in 3.2
New features in 3.2
Preface to version 3.1 (November-1998)
Preface to version 3.0 (October-1995)
Preface to version 2.1 (October-1992)
Preface to version 2.0 (October-1991)
Introduction
GMT
overview and quick reference
GMT
summary
GMT
quick reference
General features
GMT
Units
GMT
defaults
Command Line Arguments
Standardized command line options
Command Line History
Usage messages, syntax- and general error messages
Standard Input or File, header records
Verbose Operation
Output
PostScript
Features
Landscape and Portrait Orientations
Overlay and Continue Modes
Specifying pen attributes
Specifying area fill attributes
Color palette tables
Character escape sequences
Embedded grdfile format specifications
Binary table i/o
GMT
Projections
Non-map Projections
Cartesian Linear Projection (
-–Jx
-–JX
)
Logarithmic projection
Power projection
Geographical linear projection
Linear Projection with Polar (
) Coordinates (
-–Jp
-–JP
)
Conic Projections
Albers Conic Equal-Area Projection (
-–Jb
-–JB
)
Lambert Conic Conformal Projection (
-–Jl
-JL
)
Equidistant Conic Projection (
-–Jd
-JD
)
Azimuthal Projections
Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (
-–Ja
-–JA
)
Stereographic Equal-Angle Projection (
-–Js
-–JS
)
Orthographic Projection (
-–Jg
-–JG
)
Azimuthal Equidistant Projection (
-–Je
-–JE
)
Gnomonic Projection (
-–Jf
-JF
)
Cylindrical Projections
Mercator Projection (
-–Jm
-JM
)
Transverse Mercator (
-–Jt
-–JT
)
Universal Transverse Mercator UTM (
-–Ju
-–JU
)
Oblique Mercator (–
-Jo
-–JO
)
Cassini Cylindrical Projection (
-–Jc
-–JC
)
Cylindrical Equidistant Projection (
-–Jq
-–JQ
)
General Cylindrical Projections (
-–Jy
-–JY
)
Miller Cylindrical Projections (
-–Jj
-–JJ
)
Miscellaneous Projections
Hammer Projection (
-–Jh
-–JH
)
Mollweide Projection (
-–Jw
-–JW
)
Winkel Tripel Projection (–
-Jr
-–JR
)
Robinson Projection (
-–Jn
-JN
)
Eckert IV and VI Projection (
-–Jk
-JK
)
Sinusoidal Projection –(
-Ji
-–JI
)
Van der Grinten Projection (
-–Jv
-JV
)
Cook-book
The making of contour maps
Image presentations
Spectral estimation and xy-plots
A 3-D perspective mesh plot
A 3-D illuminated surface in black and white
Plotting of histograms
A simple location map
A 3-D histogram
Plotting time-series along tracks
A geographical bar graph plot
Making a 3-D RGB color cube
Optimal triangulation of data
Plotting of vector fields
Gridding of data and trend surfaces
Gridding, contouring, and masking of unconstrained areas
Gridding of data, continued
Images clipped by coastlines
Volumes and Spatial Selections
Color patterns on maps
Custom map symbols
Mailing lists, updates, and bug reports
GMT
supplemental packages
dbase: gridded data extractor
cps: complete
PostScript
en-/decoder
imgsrc: gridded altimetry extractor
meca: seismology and geodesy symbols
mex: Matlab 5-
GMT
interface
mgg: MGD77 extractor and plotting tools
misc: posters and patterns
segyprogs: Plotting SEGY seismic data
spotter: backtracking and hotspotting
x2sys: Track crossover error estimation
xgrid: visual editor for grdfiles
GMT
file formats
Table data
ASCII tables
Binary tables
2-D grdfiles
File contents
Grid line and Pixel registration
Boundary Conditions for operations on grids
Sun raster files
Making
GMT
Encapsulated
PostScript
Files
Availability of
GMT
and related code
Predefined bit and hachure patterns in
GMT
Chart of octal codes for characters
PostScript
fonts used by
GMT
Problems with display of
GMT
PostScript
PostScript
driver bugs
Resolution and dots per inch
European characters
Hints
Color Space –-- The final frontier
Filtering of data in
GMT
The
GMT
High-Resolution Coastline Data
Selecting the right data
Format required by
GMT
The long and winding road
The Five Resolutions
The crude resolution (
-Dc
)
The low resolution (
-–Dl
)
The intermediate resolution (
-Di
)
The high resolution (
-Dh
)
The full resolution (
-–Df
)
GMT
on non-
UNIX
platforms
Introduction
Cygwin and
GMT
Known Problems
DJGPP and
GMT
WIN32 and
GMT
OS/2 and
GMT
MacOS and
GMT
Index
Paul Wessel
1999-12-03