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MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

How to Collect, Process and Present Geoscientific Information

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  • Like the sister book "MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences", it is a recipe-based cookbook
  • The concept is identical, short theoretical introduction, then lots of examples
  • Based on mixed open-source and therefore free software, and professional tools widely available and very popular
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Scientific Information in Earth Sciences

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 1-18
  3. Searching and Reviewing Scientific Literature

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 19-50
  4. Internet Resources for Earth Science Data

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 51-75
  5. MATLAB as a Visualization Tool

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 77-102
  6. Visualizing 2D Data in Earth Sciences

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 103-123
  7. Visualizing 3D Data in Earth Sciences

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 125-148
  8. Processing and Displaying Images in Earth Sciences

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 149-164
  9. Editing Graphics, Text, and Tables

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann
    Pages 165-200
  10. Creating Conference Presentations

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth. Sillmann
    Pages 201-222
  11. Creating Conference Posters

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth. Sillmann
    Pages 223-234
  12. Creating Manuscripts, Flyers, and Books

    • Martin Trauth, Elisabeth. Sillmann
    Pages 235-274
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 275-292

About this book

The overall aim of the book is to introduce students to the typical course followed by a data analysis project in earth sciences. A project usually involves searching relevant literature, reviewing and ranking published books and journal articles, extracting relevant information from the literature in the form of text, data, or graphs, searching and processing the relevant original data using MATLAB, and compiling and presenting the results as posters, abstracts, and oral presentations using graphics design software. The text of this book includes numerous examples on the use of internet resources, on the visualization of data with MATLAB, and on preparing scientific presentations. As with its sister book MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences–3rd Edition (2010), which demonstrates the use of statistical and numerical methods on earth science data, this book uses state-of-the art software packages, including MATLAB and the Adobe Creative Suite, to process and present geoscientific information collected during the course of an earth science project. The book's supplementary electronic material (available online through the publisher's website) includes color versions of all figures, recipes with all the MATLAB commands featured in the book, the example data, exported MATLAB graphics, and screenshots of the most important steps involved in processing the graphics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Inst. für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Martin Trauth

  • BlaetterwaldDesign, Landau, Germany

    Elisabeth Sillmann

About the authors

Martin Trauth, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
email: trauth@geo.uni-potsdam.de

Elisabeth Sillmann, BlaetterwaldDesign, Landau, Germany
email: sillmann@blaetterwald.eu

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eBook USD 39.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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