MATLAB and Python Recipes for Earth Sciences
Martin H. Trauth, University of Potsdam, Germany
In a series of blog posts, I will tell you a little about how I teach computational geosciences with MATLAB. There will be content, didactic and technical aspects of teaching. Of course, I will also tell you about my experiences in the development of the MATLAB/LEGO MINDSTORMS Environmental Remote Sensing Lab, which we have just finished in a first version. Continue reading “Teaching Computational Geosciences with MATLAB, Part 1: Technical Aspects”
The latest issue of the University of Potsdam’s magazin PORTAL cover shows the Suguta Valley, where I ran DFG-funded project on structural and environmental history of the Suguta Valley in the Northern Kenya Rift between 2007 and 2014. Continue reading “U Potsdam’s Magazin PORTAL Cover Showing Suguta Valley”
Last Friday we completed the MATLAB/LEGO MINDSTORMS Environmental Remote Sensing. The course for undergraduate and graduate students aims to improve their skills to build efficient teams to solve typical problems in earth sciences in acquiring, processing and analyzing typical multispectral, geophysical and geometric data. The practical was a great success, and a lot of fun! Continue reading “Completing the MATLAB/LEGO MINDSTORMS Environmental Remote Sensing Lab”
As a geoscientist using MATLAB, about a decade ago I sought a way to draw a stratigraphic column with rounded corners, labels, and a number of data curves. The result of a programming exercise during a rainy Sunday afternoon was the function stratplot, which was subsequently published in Chapter 5.7 of MDRES in the year 2012. Continue reading “Drawing Stratigraphic Columns with MATLAB”
The MATLAB function axes creates a Cartesian axes in the current figure. Many MATLAB users do not use the figure and axes functions because all graphics functions generate a figure window and an axis system. However, the two functions together offer many possibilities to arrange FigureWindows on the display or to place one or more axes on this FigureWindows. Here are some examples that do not even come close to what these functions offer. Continue reading “Playing Around with the axes Function of MATLAB”
The new function heatmap was released with R2017a, providing a great way of displaying distance matrices in cluster analysis. Here I demonstrate how to modify the script of Chapter 9.5 of MRES. Continue reading “Using the new Function heatmap to Display a Distance Matrix in Cluster Analysis”
The MATLAB Expo 2017 Germany, organized by the MathWorks, will take place on 27 June 2017 in the INFINITY Hotel & Conference Resort Munich. With a total of twelve sessions, the MATLAB Expo provides a wonderful forum for both beginners, experienced and expert users to present new applications of MATLAB, to learn about future directions of the software from the developers and to exchange ideas of teaching computational methods with one of the leading fourth generation programming language. Continue reading “MATLAB Expo 2017 Germany on 27 June 2017 in Munich”
The MATLAB Live Editor was introduced about a year ago providing an elegant way to create, edit and run MATLAB code. Using the new editor the results of a MATLAB script are displayed together with the code that produced them. A Live Script can include equations, images, hyperlinks and formatted text, to be shared with others as an interactive document, as the webpage of MathWorks suggests.
Continue reading “A Year with the new MATLAB Live Editor”