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Re: Contouring of data in polar coordinates [message #3542 is a reply to message #3482]

Thu, 02 February 1995 06:49

bowman
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Registered: September 1991

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In article <3gjled$epd@news.arc.nasa.gov>, jennifer@gaia.arc.nasa.gov
(Jennifer Dungan) wrote:

> Can someone point me to a method for creating a polar plot with contours?
> I imagine there are two steps to this problem:
> 1) interpolate irregularly spaced data expressed in polar coordinates to
> obtain a grid of data
> 2) contour these data on a polar plot.

If your data are in polar coordinates (i.e. r and theta), which is
equivalent to co-latitude and longitude on an azimuthal projection, just
use MAPSET and the AZIMUTHAL projection.

Ken Bowman

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