Dear All,
Wishing you all a very happy new year! Hope the new year has begun very
well.
We are pleased to announce our next edition of short course on *Mapping
Essentials*. Interested participants are encouraged to visit this website
and register: https://gubbilabs.in/courses/content/mapping-essentials
*Mapping Essentials*
*“Mapping Essentials” *is an intense 2-day program for students and
professionals alike. This program aims to equip the participants with the
essentials of mapping, offering insights and hands-on exposure to working
with key free-and-open-source mapping application, the *QGIS*. The program
equips learners to appreciate the key concepts, enabling them to quickly
learn, test and apply the techniques in their respective domains and
eventually be able to produce maps for their own needs.
*Brief Session Details:*
- Session 1: Basics of Mapping
- Session 2: Working with QGIS: Overview and Installation
- Session 3: Working with Open Data and gathering data with mobile
devices/handhelds
- Session 4: Bringing the data together and sourcing them from different
repositories
- Session 5: Making sense of the data: Basic analysis
- Session 6: Presenting maps: Map compositions, web GIS and mash-ups
*Tool exposed:* QGIS
The main aim of this course is to equip the learners to compose maps with
the help of free and open source solution. The course attempts to explain
the techniques and standards for distribution of geographical data,
concepts of coordinates, projection system and so on. The practical
sessions concentrate on the process for creating data, maps and with the
help of popular desktop and web-based mapping applications like QGIS
besides accessing data from OpenStreetMap. Eventually, the participants
would be able to produce maps for their own needs.
*Key Takeaways: *The course will equip learners to translate their raw data
into maps, by enabling them to learn, test and apply the necessary mapping
techniques that are the key to a better understanding of data and ground
situations. On completing this course, participants will:
1. Appreciate key concepts, understand the spatial data requirements.
2. Be familiar with a range of techniques to gather field data
(including traditional methods, as well as satellite navigation systems
like GPS and related technologies).
3. Be able to test and apply the techniques in their respective domains.
4. Eventually, produce maps for their own needs.
*Course Format: *The short course enables participants to have hands-on
experience with the software and datasets, followed by a demo at every
step. The teaching process comprises interactive lectures, classroom
exercises, the collection of primary data from the field and practical
training and tasks. Participants are required to participate fully in all
of the above activities. Certificates will only be awarded to participants
who complete all course requirements.
*Place: Bengaluru, Karnataka*
*Session Details: *
*Session 1: *Introduction to GIS & Mapping – The session details with
understanding map related concepts like scale, map projection, coordinates,
raster data type, vector data type, database management.
*Session 2: *Overview of free and open source mapping applications and
plugins – The session deals with introducing the learners to the free and
open source mapping application – QGIS, which can be used for mapping and
create map output.
*Session 3: *Data Collection, Preparation, and Management – The session
will expose the learner to satellite-based navigation (popularly known as
GPS) and collecting data on GPS. It will involve practical outdoor activity
by gathering data on GPS/data logger, there will be a hands-on session on
translating data gathered from GPS to QGIS, create data and prepare them in
such a way that is amenable to most popular GIS data format and link them
to the geometry file. Finally, the learner will be exposed to different map
composers for such data.
*Session 4: *Data Analysis and 3D mapping – This session deals with
analysing data using various geoprocessing tools to create buffer, clip
data, etc extracting contours, generating heat map, creating 3D maps etc.
*Session 5: *Working with OpenStreetMap & Web mapping – The session will
give an introduction to OSM movement. Downloading the data from OSM and
also adding data to OSM by working with tools like JOSM/QGIS.
Participants are highly encouraged that they bring their own laptop.
*Eligibility:* This program is open to participants from any domain and not
limited to engineering, sciences, ecology, and social sciences.
Participation is limited to 20 members.
*Important Dates:*
*Registration deadline: 15 February 2020.*
*The course will be held on 22 - 23 February 2020.*
*Charges:* ₹ 6,999 per participant. Charges include study material and food
with refreshments on both days. Travel to and fro has to be borne by the
participants. Students are eligible for a concession of up to ₹ 1,000.
*Course Instructors: Sudhira HS, Priyadarshini Shetty, and Shashikala Gowda*
*Registration:* Interested participants are encouraged to *register here
<https://www.payumoney.com/events/#/buyTickets/mapping-essentials>*.
For more details, please contact: courses@xxxxxxxxxxxx
With warm regards,
*Courses at Gubbi Labs Team.*
https://gubbilabs.in/courses/