Change color outside region of polyshape

I have gridded data between -40°S 0°S to 10°E to 45°E. I have manged to plot this data and add the borders of the countries over it. How can I mask the data that is plotted over the oceans. I only want to see the data over the land.

[darova]

Can you exaplain more? You want just background?

[David du Preez]

I plotted the gridded data and then added the borders with the countries that I am interested in

% Gridded data
pcolor(X,Y,uvi_mean');
shading interp
colormap jet
hold on
% used [lat lon] = borders('countries');
pgon = polyshape(lon,lat,'simplify',false);
plot(pgon,'FaceColor','none','edgecolor','k','facealpha',1)

I have attached a figure that I have so far. Now I only wanted the data to be displayed over land

[jonas]

Easily done with inpolygon function. Upload the data so people can help you.

[David du Preez]

I have attached the data here,now

[BN]

what is x and y in your data?

how to produce them?

Answer 1

[jonas]

load data.mat
% Gridded data
in = inpolygon(X,Y,lon,lat)
uvi_mean=uvi_mean';
uvi_mean(~in)=NaN;
pcolor(X,Y,uvi_mean);
shading interp
colormap jet
hold on
% used [lat lon] = borders('countries');
pgon = polyshape(lon,lat,'simplify',false);
plot(pgon,'FaceColor','none','edgecolor','k','facealpha',1)

You can get a nicer border by upsampling (interpolate) your matrix.

load data.mat
%upsample
uvi_mean=uvi_mean';
xn = min(X(:)):0.1:max(X(:));
yn = min(Y(:)):0.1:max(Y(:));
[Xn,Yn] = meshgrid(xn,yn);
VQ = interp2(X,Y,uvi_mean,Xn,Yn);
% Gridded data
in = inpolygon(Xn,Yn,lon,lat)
VQ(~in)=NaN;
pcolor(Xn,Yn,VQ);
shading interp
colormap jet
hold on
% used [lat lon] = borders('countries');
pgon = polyshape(lon,lat,'simplify',false);
plot(pgon,'FaceColor','none','edgecolor','k','facealpha',1)