Course description
Workshop will cover basic handling of spatial data. Learning about netCDF and other data formats. Plotting data on a map, political borders, coastlines, rivers, slope maps. How to customize regions, geographic projection, ticks, labels, geographic grids and frames for a figure.
Target audience
Master students, PhD candidates, and researchers within earth sciences or any field working with spatial data.
Learning outcomes
- Handling geophysical or any spatial data
- netCDF and other data formats
- Plotting data on a map
- Geographic projections
- Slopes, shaded relief maps
- Export as postscript (eps), pdf, raster
- Political borders, coastlines, rivers, slope maps.
- Insets, legends, colors, ticks, labels, geographic grids, frames
Prerequisites
- Any level
Technical and Material Requirements
- Run GMT code examples in a browser:
- Look for bash, python or julia demos
Lunch
- There will be a complementary buffet-lunch at 12:00-13:00 from the Sverdrups spiseri (Georg Sverdrups Hus, 2nd floor).
- After you get your lunch, join us at Store møterom where we have reserved seats for #DSDays2026 participants.
Number of participants
After the soft deadline, a waiting list will be automatically handled upon de-registrations.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this course, or anything else about the DSDays 2026 event, please contact us per email: digitalscholarship@ub.uio.no