Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Course Motivation: Applications of GIS
Getting started with QGIS - installation & QGIS interface
  • QGIS - open source GIS software - an absolute leader in the free market
  • Installing QGIS on your PC - versions of QGIS
  • Lab 1: QGIS installation
  • A note on QGIS versions and it's plug-ins
  • QGIS interface: Toolbars
  • QGIS Plugi-Ins
Introduction to GIS analysis in QGIS
  • What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
  • Basics of Geodata and its main types
  • Adding vector layer to QGIS
  • Visualization of vector layers in QGIS
  • Adding and visualizing raster files in QGIS 3.16
  • Saving the project in QGIS
  • GIS data sources - learn where to find the GIS data
Core Vector Analysis Part 1: Table Opeerations
  • Reading in non-spatial type of data & converting it to vector data
  • Reading in Excel Files & Joining Attribute Tables
  • Attribute Tables of vector data sets
  • Attribute Table Operations: Select Feautures
  • Attribute Table Operations: Compute and add geometry attributes (area, P)
  • Editing Attribute Tables
  • Adding new columns / Recalculating fields in attribute tables / Field Calculator
Basics of map layouts in QGIS and geovisualization
  • Visualization with quick settings in QGIS and Open street map
  • Lab: Your First GIS Map in QGIS
  • Color advice for cartography and GIS maps
Core Vector Analysis Part 2: Vector Overlay, Buffer zones, Distance Operations
  • Theory: Core Vector Analysis Part 1
  • Theory: Core Vector Analysis Part 1
  • Buffering in QGIS
  • Creating a Variable Distance Buffer
  • Vector Overlay: Erase
  • Vector Overlay: Union
  • Vector Analysis: Geometry Tools
  • Vector Analysis: Area Calculation & Field Statistics
Core Raster Analysis
  • Theory on Raster Analysis: Local Operations
  • Adding raster layers to QGIS project
  • Compute Topographical variables with the DEM raster layer
  • Compute Topographical variables with the DEM raster layer: Slope & Aspect
  • Reclassify Rasters with SAGA Toolbox in QGIS
  • Resampling raster data in QGIS
  • Advance raster overlay operations with SAGA Toolbox
  • Filtering raster data: Low Pass filter
Raster Data Analysis - Project-based Example
  • Introduction to the project task
  • Calculate the Slope
  • Removing decimal values from a raster layer
  • Raster Calculation: Calculate cost of building construction
  • Adding new field to vector's attribute table
  • Convert Vector to Ratser
  • Distance operations: Calculate proximity from the raster layer
  • Raster Multiplication: Scalar Value Multiplication
  • Raster Overlay: Adding two rasters
  • Raster Overlay: Masking out one raster layer by another
Core Remote Sensing Image Analysis in QGIS
  • What is Remote Sensing
  • Applications of Remote Sensing
  • What is Remote Sensing Image?
  • Insalling Semi-Automatic Classification Plug-in
  • Lab: Download satellite image with the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin
  • Resolution types of Satellite Image
  • Image Disaply (Image Composites)
  • Planning Satellite Image Analysis Workflow
  • Image Enhancement
  • Calculation of spectral indices: NDVI
  • Image thresholding & visualisation: example of NDVI
  • Making a map layout in QGIS: Example of NDVI
Satellite Image Classification in QGIS
  • Basics of Satellite Image Classification
  • Lab: Unsupervised Image Classification in SCP
  • Image classification: basics of land use / land cover mapping
  • LULC results visualization in QGIS
  • Create your LULC map in QGIS
Plug-Inns Power of QGIS
  • Introduction to the section
  • Overview of OTB
  • Google Earth Engine Plug-In
  • Trends.Earth Plugin for QGIS
  • Installation of Trends.Earth Plugin
  • Registration for Trends.Earth Plugin
  • Where to get help on Trends.Earth
  • BONUS