610 - Open Source GIS for Professionals
Course Description
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are essential environmental tools that enable the analysis, visualization, communication, and management of spatial data. Yet choosing the right suite of GIS tools can be confusing given the large number of open source GIS tools available today. This course will provide a lab-based overview of the GIS process – from data input to data analysis to final deployment on the web – using a free, Open Source version of GIS called QGIS. The workshop exercises will provide students hands-on experience in importing data in different formats (i.e., *.shp, *.csv) into QGIS; analyzing the data using a range of QGIS libraries; and displaying analyzed maps on the web using the JavaScript library Leaflet.
- Obtaining input and scientific information
- Placing alternatives in context of geomorphology, hydrology, channel geometry, sediment budget, sediment transport and management
- Gathering and analyzing basic data
- Surveying, soil mechanics, hydraulics, modeling
- Design process, products and practice
- Standards, specifications and design notes
- Floodplain restoration techniques
- Streambank and shoreline protection techniques
- Stream channel stabilization techniques
- Open channel restoration techniques
- Fish stream improvement
- Bioengineering techniques
- Design drawings – conveying information
- Operation, maintenance and monitoring plans
- Best management practices
- Construction sequencing
- Environmental change and building resilience
*All instruction and program facilitation, resource manual, transportation to/from the field, morning coffee/tea, a certificate of completion for this offering is provided.
Available Professional Credit: 3.5 CEU, 35 PDH.