Wednesday, October 15, 2008

[Tutorials] IDL user guides for beginner ~ intermediate level.

IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a widely used general purpose on scientific data analysis and visualization package. With IDL, one can handle huge amound of datasets, create various graphs, and visualize 2 and 3-D data using plots, contours, iso-surfaces and slices. Also, IDL has image processing capabilities such as smoothing, sharpening and thresholding. For the begining of the user's first step, lots of IDL tutorials are found from IDL expert's webpages. I'd like to introduces some helpful links to IDL beginner.

1. Complete list of Frequently Asked Questions about the IDL is shown in JHU IDL web page.
This site provides useful answers about IDL related 'what' and 'how' problems.

2. Basic tutorials by Hugh Pumphrey's "an introduction of IDL" note.

3. Well documented and illustrated online IDL tutorial by UMN supercomputing institute is appropriated to the beginner.

4. A good starting point to using IDL is the guide written by NCAS-CMS - 'An Introduction to Using IDL in Meteorology

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