Marine Geoscience Data System

GeoMapApp^© Tutorial Movies

GeoMapApp Links

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View the multimedia movies listed below to learn how to perform common tasks with GeoMapApp. You must have Flash installed on your computer for these tutorials to play correctly. Click on a link below to view.

Tool Bar Functions

Tutorial	Description
Zoom and Pan	How to zoom in/out and pan
Mask Function	Highlights areas of higher-resolution topography
Profile Tool	Generate a profile across any type of grid
Grid Tool: Basics	Change colours, sun illumination, vertical exaggeration, contours
Grid Tool: 3-D View	View topography in three dimensions, rotate, tilt and save image
Digitizer Function	Digitize a custom depth profile
Contributed Grids	View many types of contributed regional grids
Web Feature Services	Use WFS to view stations/samples from various databases

Import Data

Tutorial	Description
Import Grid	Import GMT NetCDF-formatted grids (.grd files)
Import Shapefile	Import shapefiles from your computer or from a URL
Import Data Table	Import Excel spreadsheets and ASCII (text) tables
Symbols, Graphs	Scale and colour symbols, plot data columns

Custom Data Viewers

Tutorial	Description
Multibeam Tracks	View multibeam bathymetry tracklines, download swath data files
Dive Photos	View dive photos and dive tracks from Alvin and Jason operations
SCS Profiles	View, digitise, and save single-channel seismic reflection profiles
Earthquake Swarm	Animated time-sequence of earthquakes