GLG410/598--Computers in Earth and Space Exploration
Assignment 5: Yellowstone Earthquake Analysis - Gridding and Image Plotting
For this assignment, assemble the operations of Thursday's tutorial of "for loops" and image plotting using the Yellowstone seismicity data.
Cut and paste the commands from the lecture into a Matlab m-file (script).
Include comments in the script that tell the user what each group of commands is doing.
Build a web page for this assignment that contains the following:
- (3D Plot) Plot 3D locations of earthquakes
- For 3 different resolutions (stepsize = 0.25 , 0.1, and 0.05)):
- (Grid Plot) Plot blue circles at each point in the grid on top of earthquake locations
- (Text Label Plot) Plot text labels for mean depths on top of earthquake locations
- (Scaled Image Plot) Plot scaled image (imagesc or pcolor) of mean depths below earthquake locations
- A link to your M-file (Matlab script) used to make these plots
- Discussion: relate the mean depth or variation in depth with the swarms, magnitudes, and other analysis from the prior assignment.
- Include a link to a web article on the ongoing swarm that you find particularly interesting. Note that this has been broadly mentioned in the popular media lately.
Grading Rubric (35 points):
- Web page for the assignment--3 points
- 3D Location Plot--3 points
- Grid Plots--3 points
- Text Label Plots--3 points
- Scaled Image Plots--3 points
- Matlab m-file (including comments)--10 points
- Discussion and link--10 points
Assignment is due Thursday, February 19, 2009.
GLG410/598 Computers in Earth and Space Exploration
Last modified: February 11, 2009