gmtread

gmtread(fname::String; kwargs...)

keywords: GMT, Julia, read raster vector

Read GMT object from file. The object is one of "grid" or "grd", "image" or "img", "data" or "table", "cmap" or "cpt" and "ps" (for postscript), and OGR formats (shp, kml, json, gpkg). Use a type specificatin to force a certain reading path (e.g. grd=true to read grids) or take the chance of letting the data type be guessed via the file extension. Known extensions are:

• Grids: .grd, .jp2 .nc

• Images: .jpg, .jp2 .png, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .webp

• Datasets: .dat, .txt, .csv, .isf

• Datasets: .arrow .arrows .shp .kml .kmz .json .gmt .feather .fgb .gpkg .geojson .gpx .gml .ipc .parquet .sqlite (or *.ext.zip)

• CPT: .cpt

• PostScript: .ps, .eps

Parameters

Specify data type (with type=true, e.g. img=true). Choose among:

• grd | grid: Load a grid

• img | image: Load a image.

• cpt | cmap: Load a GMT color palette.

• data | dataset | table: Load a dataset (a table of numbers).

• ogr: Load a dataset via GDAL OGR (a table of numbers). Many things can happen here.

• ps: Load a PostScript file

• gdal: Force reading the file via GDAL. Should only be used to read grids.

• varname: When netCDF files have more than one 2D (or higher) variables use varname to pick the wished variable. e.g. varname=:slp to read the variable named 'slp'. This option defaults data type to 'grid'.This option can be used both with and without the gdal option. Former case uses GMT lib to read the cube and outputs and 3D array in column major order, later case (the one with gdal) uses GDAL to read the cube and outputs and 3D array in row major order. Remember that the layout member of the GMTgrid type informs about memory layout.

• inrows: Select specific data rows to be read. Valid args include ranges or a string with an hard core GMT -q option.

• stride: When reading table data via GMT (but not GDAL), this option allows subsampling the data. Provide a number to be used as stride for the rows. A stride=2 will read every other row.

• layer| layers | band | bands: When files are multiband or nc files with 3D or 4D arrays, we access them via these keywords. layer=4 reads the fourth layer (or band) of the file. But the file can be a grid or an image. If it is a grid, layer can be a scalar (to read 3D arrays) or an array of two elements (to read a 4D array). This option should not be used with the gdal option.

If file is an image layer can be a 1 or a 1x3 array (to read a RGB image). Not that in this later case bands do not need to be contiguous. A band=[1,5,2] composes an RGB out of those bands. See more at Modifiers for COARDS-compliant netCDF files but note that we use 1 based indexing here.

Use layers=:all to read all levels of a 3D cube netCDF file.

• R or region or limits : – limits=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) | limits=(BB=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax),) | limits=(LLUR=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax),units="unit") | ...more
  Specify the region of interest. More at limits. For perspective view view, optionally add zmin,zmax. This option may be used to indicate the range used for the 3-D axes. You may ask for a larger w/e/s/n region to have more room between the image and the axes.

• V or verbose : – verbose=true | verbose=level
  Select verbosity level. More at verbose

• bi or binary_in : – binary_in=??
  Select native binary format for primary table input. More at

• f or colinfo : – colinfo=??
  Specify the data types of input and/or output columns (time or geographical data). More at

Examples

To read a nc called 'lixo.grd'

G = gmtread("lixo.grd");

to read a jpg image with the bands reversed

I = gmtread("image.jpg", band=[2,1,0]);

to read a zip comtressed shape file

I = gmtread("fileshapes.zip.shp");

See Also

gmtwrite, gdalread