Title: Free and open source tools for GI-Science - GDAL, QGIS and ILWIS 386

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge necessary to conduct the necessary data translation, required to import the geo-information in raster and vector formats into common used free and open GIS/RS tools, like QGIS and ILWIS.

The course deals with an introduction to MS DOS as most participants might require an update on the use of the command line tools available under Windows. Subsequently the Geospatial Data Translation Library (GDAL) is introduced and raster as well as vector data, consisting of various formats (NetCDF, HDF5, JPEG, etc.) have to be imported in a common free GIS/RS tool. Also attention is given to the extraction of the data set Meta Data descriptions as well as the used of raster data which is having a certain projection.

Subsequently QGIS is introduced. After a primer on the basic use and functionality of QGIS, participants will work with raster and vector data as well as those available through web mapping services. The lesson ends with a case study dealing with a multi-criteria analysis  for locating photovoltaic power plants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Finally the course is dealing with the use of ILWIS. Also during this lesson participants will be introduced to the functionality of ILWIS, dealing with the overall menu and the map window menu items. The lesson concludes with exercises demonstrating the application of various operations and map calculations and the use of scripts.

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Section 1
  Announcements
  Social Forum
  Course Guide
  Course Files
Course Content
  Lesson 1: Introduction to MS DOS – GDAL/OGR
  Lesson 2: Introduction to QGIS
  Lesson 3: Introduction to ILWIS 386
  Assignment Lesson 3