Collecting, Processing and Presenting Geoscientific Information

Description

This second edition is an intensively revised and updated version of the book MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences. It aims 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 the book MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences–4rd Edition (2015), 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Scientific Information in Earth Sciences (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 1-14 Searching and Reviewing Scientific Literature (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 15-40 Internet Resources for Earth Science Data (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 41-60 MATLAB as a Visualization Tool (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 61-97 Visualizing 2D Data in Earth Sciences (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 99-118 Visualizing 3D Data in Earth Sciences (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 119-142 Processing and Displaying Images in Earth Sciences (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 143-167 Editing Graphics, Text, and Tables (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 169-196 Creating Conference Presentations (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 197-214 Creating Conference Posters (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 215-226 Creating Manuscripts, Flyers, and Brochures (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 227-260 Creating Multimedia Publications (Martin H. Trauth, Elisabeth Sillmann)....Pages 261-274