# **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
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## 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