The exercise helps students to understand how to read complex text files with MATLAB.
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MRES Exercise #9 Getting Started with MATLAB
This exercise helps students to get started with MATLAB. During the first part, the students are asked to go through the 2–3 online tutorial “MATLAB Onramp”, available online at the MATLAB Academy to get familiar with the MATLAB fundamentals. Second, the students are asked to obtain information on a specific MATLAB function from the documentation. And third, the students are asked to create a simple MATLAB function.
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46th and 47th Shortcourse on MRES in Potsdam
The spring courses on MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences in Potsdam will be held on 18–22 Februar 2019 (in English language) and 4–8 March 2019 (in German language). Continue reading “46th and 47th Shortcourse on MRES in Potsdam”
Public Lecture during the University of Potsdam Children’s University
On September 28, 2018, the University of Potsdam will once again open its lecture halls for 8–10 year old children in order to inspire them for the world of science. During the event I will teach a lecture on “Knochenjob in Ostafrika – Unterwegs auf den Spuren der Menschheitsentwicklung” during the Children’s University Potsdam.
Lecture on Tectonics, Climate and Human Evolution
On 12 September at 11 a.m. I will teach a including the newest results from our Chew Bahir Project during Potsdam Summer School 2018. on “The skin of our planet – the Earth surface system”. In partnership with GeoX and the City of Potsdam, this summer school is organized by AWI, GFZ, IASS, PIK and U Potsdam. Continue reading “Lecture on Tectonics, Climate and Human Evolution”
Convolution of Distributions
Convolving distributions corresponds to adding independent random variables. MATLAB is a great tool to demonstrate the convolution of distributions. Continue reading “Convolution of Distributions”
Multispectral Cameras, Bayer Mosaics and Image Processing with MATLAB
When editing the images of the MAPIR Survey 2 NDVI camera, I learned a lot about how cameras actually capture and store images. The knowledge was important in order to properly import the images into MATLAB, process them and compute an NDVI image of them. If you do not do it right, you can see it immediately: You do not get a nice picture! Continue reading “Multispectral Cameras, Bayer Mosaics and Image Processing with MATLAB”
Which Vector Graphics Software do you Recommend to your Students?
The excellent graphics capabilities of MATLAB make it virtually unnecessary to edit graphics with vector graphics software (see blog post “Create Publishable Graphics with MATLAB“). Only very occasionally we need such software, for example to edit graphics that have not been created with MATLAB. Which both commercial and free software do you recommend your to students for this? Continue reading “Which Vector Graphics Software do you Recommend to your Students?”