GMT Online Man Pages
These man pages are html-versions of the Unix man pages for GMT. They
are grouped both alphabetically or by function.
For alphabetical order, click here.
GMT WRAPPER:
- GMT A Wrapper for GMT programs
FILTERING OF 1-D AND 2-D DATA:
PLOTTING OF 1-D and 2-D DATA:
- grdcontour Contouring of 2-D gridded data
- grdimage Produce images from 2-D gridded datar
- grdvector Plot vector fields from 2-D gridded data
- grdview 3-D perspective imaging of 2-D gridded data
- psbasemap Create a basemap frame
- psclip Use polygon files as clipping paths
- pscoast Plot coastlines, filled continents, rivers, and political borders
- pscontour Direct contouring or imaging of xyz-data by triangulation
- pshistogram Plot a histogram
- psimage Plot Sun rasterfiles on a map
- pslegend Plot legend on a map
- psmask Create overlay to mask specified regions of a map
- psrose Plot sector or rose diagrams
- psscale Plot grayscale or colorscale
- pstext Plot textstrings
- pswiggle Draw anomalies along track
- psxy Plot symbols, polygons, and lines in 2-D
- psxyz Plot symbols, polygons, and lines in 3-D
GRIDDING OF (X,Y,Z) DATA:
- greenspline Gridding using Green's function splines
- nearneighbor Nearest-neighbor gridding scheme
- surface Continuous curvature gridding algorithm
- triangulate Perform optimal Delauney triangulation on xyz data
SAMPLING OF 1-D AND 2-D DATA:
- grdsample Resample a 2-D gridded data onto new grid
- grdtrack Sampling of 2-D data along 1-D track
- sample1d Resampling of 1-D data
PROJECTION AND MAP-TRANSFORMATION:
- grdproject Project gridded data onto new coordinate system
- mapproject Transformation of coordinate systems
- project Project data onto lines/great circles
INFORMATION:
- gmtcolors Information on how to specify colors in GMT
- gmtdefaults List the current default settings
- gmtset Edit parameters in the .gmtdefaults file
- grdinfo Get information about grd files
- minmax Report extreme values in table datafiles
CONVERT OR EXTRACT SUBSETS OF DATA:
- gmt2rgb Convert Sun raster or grdfile to red, green, blue component grids
- gmtconvert Convert table data from one format to another
- gmtmath Reverse Polish calculator for table data
- gmtselect Select table subsets based on multiple spatial criteria
- grd2xyz Convert 2-D gridded data to table
- grdcut Cut a sub-region from a grd file
- grdpaste Paste together grdfiles along common edge
- grdreformat Convert from one grdformat to another
- splitxyz Split xyz files into several segments
- xyz2grd Convert table to 2-D grd file
MISCELLANEOUS:
- makecpt Create GMT color palette tables
- spectrum1d Compute spectral estimates from time-series
- triangulate Perform optimal Delauney triangulation on xyz data
DETERMINE TRENDS IN 1-D AND 2-D DATA:
- fitcircle Finds best-fitting great or small circles
- grdtrend Fits polynomial trends to grdfiles (z = f(x,y))
- trend1d Fits polynomial or Fourier trends to y = f(x) series
- trend2d Fits polynomial trends to z = f(x,y) series
OTHER OPERATIONS ON 2-D GRIDS:
- grd2cpt Make color palette table from grdfile
- grdblend Blend several gridded data sets into one
- grdclip Limit the z-range in gridded data sets
- grdedit Modify grd header information
- grdfft Operate on grdfiles in frequency domain
- grdgradient Compute directional gradient from grdfiles
- grdhisteq Histogram equalization for grdfiles
- grdlandmask Creates mask grdfile from coastline database
- grdmask Set nodes outside a clip path to a constant
- grdmath Reverse Polish calculator for grdfiles
- grdvolume Calculating volume under a surface within a contour
MANIPULATION OF GMT POSTSCRIPT FILES:
- ps2raster Crop and convert PostScript to raster image, EPS and PDF
POSTSCRIPT LIBRARY FUNCTION CALLS (for developers):
- pslib Reference manual for libpsl.a
GMT SHELL SCRIPTS:
- gmt_shell_functions Simplifying GMT bash scripting
- gmtcolors Information on how to specify colors in GMT
- gmtget Get present value of a GMT defaults parameter
- gmtlogo Plot a GMT logo as an overlay
- isogmt Run GMT command or script in isolation mode
- psbbox Replace BoundingBox line in PostScript files
For a thematic listing, click here.
- blockmean L2 (x,y,z) data filter/decimator
- blockmedian L1 (x,y,z) data filter/decimator
- blockmode Mode-estimating (x,y,z) data filter/decimator
- filter1d Filter 1-D data (time series)
- fitcircle Finds best-fitting great or small circles
- gmt_shell_functions Simplifying GMT bash scripting
- gmt2rgb Convert Sun raster or grdfile to red, green, blue component grids
- gmtcolors Information on how to specify colors in GMT
- gmtconvert Convert table data from one format to another
- gmtdefaults List the current default settings
- gmtget Get present value of a GMT defaults parameter
- gmtlogo Plot a GMT logo as an overlay
- gmtmath Reverse Polish calculator for table data
- gmtselect Select table subsets based on multiple spatial criteria
- gmtset Edit parameters in the .gmtdefaults file
- grd2cpt Make color palette table from grdfile
- grd2xyz Convert 2-D gridded data to table
- grdblend Blend several gridded data sets into one
- grdclip Limit the z-range in gridded data sets
- grdcontour Contouring of 2-D gridded data
- grdcut Cut a sub-region from a grd file
- grdedit Modify grd header information
- grdfft Operate on grdfiles in frequency domain
- grdfilter Filter 2-D data in space domain
- grdgradient Compute directional gradient from grdfiles
- grdhisteq Histogram equalization for grdfiles
- grdimage Produce images from 2-D gridded datar
- grdinfo Get information about grd files
- grdlandmask Creates mask grdfile from coastline database
- grdmask Set nodes outside a clip path to a constant
- grdmath Reverse Polish calculator for grdfiles
- grdpaste Paste together grdfiles along common edge
- grdproject Project gridded data onto new coordinate system
- grdreformat Convert from one grdformat to another
- grdsample Resample a 2-D gridded data onto new grid
- grdtrack Sampling of 2-D data along 1-D track
- grdtrend Fits polynomial trends to grdfiles (z = f(x,y))
- grdvector Plot vector fields from 2-D gridded data
- grdview 3-D perspective imaging of 2-D gridded data
- grdvolume Calculating volume under a surface within a contour
- greenspline Gridding using Green's function splines
- isogmt Run GMT command or script in isolation mode
- makecpt Create GMT color palette tables
- mapproject Transformation of coordinate systems
- minmax Report extreme values in table datafiles
- nearneighbor Nearest-neighbor gridding scheme
- project Project data onto lines/great circles
- ps2raster Crop and convert PostScript to raster image, EPS and PDF
- psbasemap Create a basemap frame
- psbbox Replace BoundingBox line in PostScript files
- psclip Use polygon files as clipping paths
- pscoast Plot coastlines, filled continents, rivers, and political borders
- pscontour Direct contouring or imaging of xyz-data by triangulation
- pshistogram Plot a histogram
- psimage Plot Sun rasterfiles on a map
- pslegend Plot legend on a map
- psmask Create overlay to mask specified regions of a map
- psrose Plot sector or rose diagrams
- psscale Plot grayscale or colorscale
- pstext Plot textstrings
- pswiggle Draw anomalies along track
- psxy Plot symbols, polygons, and lines in 2-D
- psxyz Plot symbols, polygons, and lines in 3-D
- sample1d Resampling of 1-D data
- spectrum1d Compute spectral estimates from time-series
- splitxyz Split xyz files into several segments
- surface Continuous curvature gridding algorithm
- trend1d Fits polynomial or Fourier trends to y = f(x) series
- trend2d Fits polynomial trends to z = f(x,y) series
- triangulate Perform optimal Delauney triangulation on xyz data
- triangulate Perform optimal Delauney triangulation on xyz data
- xyz2grd Convert table to 2-D grd file
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