Outline for EGU22 PyGMT short course

GitHub repo at https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/egu22pygmt

Schedule

Time (UTC)	Event
13:10-13.20	Introduction (@weiji14)
13:20-13.40	Tutorial 1 - Anatomy of a PyGMT figure (@leouieda)
13:40-14.00	Tutorial 2
14:00-14.20	Tutorial 3 - LiDAR point clouds to 3D surfaces (@weiji14)
14:20-14.40	Tutorial 4

Detailed outlines

Jot down some of the learning outcomes for your 20 min tutorial!
This can include 3-4 main bullet points, and a few sub-points.

Ideas from past workshops:

• https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/2021-unavco-course
• https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/foss4g2019oceania

Introduction (@weiji14)

• What is PyGMT?
• Things you can do
  • Plotting vector/raster data
  • Data processing

Tutorial 1 - Anatomy of a PyGMT figure (@leouieda)

• Creating a figure
• The layer cake
• Setting a basemap and common arguments: region, projection, frame
  • Basics and some GMT goodies like country codes
  • How to read the docs
• Overlay coast lines
• Adding data points

Tutorial 2 ()

• Point 1
• Point 2
• Point 3

Tutorial 3 - 3D data processing (@weiji14)

• Load a LiDAR point cloud
• Creating a Digital Surface Model (DSM)
• Plotting a DSM with grdview

Tutorial 4 - Integration with the scientific python ecosystem (@meghanrjones)

• Plotting pandas data
• Plotting geopandas data
• Plotting an xarray.DataArray