MATLAB and Python Recipes for Earth Sciences
Martin H. Trauth, University of Potsdam, Germany
Here is another great MATLAB-based website, the one about recurrence plots by my colleague and long-term collaborator Norbert Marwan from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems are popular in many fields such as climate science, flow mechanics and medicine. Continue reading “Cross Recurrence Plot Toolbox”
Here is a nice application of the script from MRES to count sand grains in microscope images. In September 2013 a biologist from the National Museums of Kenya joint us on an expedition to the Suguta Valley in the Northern Kenya Rift. At that time hundreds of thousands of lesser flamingos left the Central Kenia Rift, especially from the Nakuru basin, and went to the Suguta Valley. The biologist started to count the flamingos, while I immediately thought about doing this automatically with a little MATLAB script.
Here is a short outline of my research and teaching at the U Potsdam, Germany, and elsewhere, with emphasis on the use of MATLAB in earth sciences.
This was one of my first MATLAB® / LEGO® MINDSTORMS® projects: the model of a moving satellite. Three exercises have been developed from this, which I will shortly provide in the member area with solutions.
Continue reading “The MATLAB® / LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Model of a Moving Satellite”
In an article published in Quaternary Geochronology (Trauth, 2014), I introduced a new method for modeling complex stratigraphic sequences. I would like to explain at this point what the result of the modeling is, and what it is not.
Continue reading “Probabilistic Age Modeling for Complex Stratigraphic Sequences”
So it all started. I was an invited speaker at the MATLAB Expo 2016 in Munich with a lecture on “Dust storms, blackouts and 50°C in the shade: with MATLAB in the cradle of humankind“. One of Keynote Lectures was held by Dr. Rainer Stetter of ITQ, “Industry 4.0 – Risks and Opportunities“, who talked, among other things, about the European Hi5 Hackethon 2016 with MATLAB and LEGO MINDSTORMS. I wondered how I could use the connection of MATLAB and LEGO MINDSTORMS, using the hardware support of The MathWorks in my shortcourses on geoscientific data analysis and future editions of the textbooks.
Continue reading “The MATLAB® / LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Shopping List”