GIS in QGIS 3 for beginners
What you'll learn
- Using QGIS 3 software from scratch
- Working with spatial data
- Digitalization and map visualization
- Finding and loading data (local and online)
- Graphic files calibration
- Data visualization styles
- Geoprocessing of vector and raster data
- Importing GPS coordinates
- Attribute interpolation
- Kriging
- Spatial statistics calculations
- Selective search
- Conditions
- Creating maps
- 3D visualization
Requirements
- Computer using basics (if You know where is right mouse button You’re good to go)
Description
In this course you will learn everything you need to know to start your journey with GIS software by solving a real-life scenario.
We will start by preparing our project and all data we might need, planning our work and managing task progress. I will show you all the most important tools, you will learn how to import and export spatial data, modify it, calculate parameters, search for cases, visualize data, create maps and much more. It is a KNOW-HOW for every beginner in spatial analysis, whether you are a student, an administration employee, a data enthusiast or you just want to expand your competences. By the end of this course You will have a project file that You can later show for example to your future employer.
The course is based on free QGIS software in the latest, 3rd version. Thanks to its open source license, QGIS is widely used by many companies, both state-owned and in the private sector. The environment is constantly being developed, updated and regularly translated into many languages. The multitude of available data analysis options makes it one of the most popular GIS programs in the world!
No knowledge of GIS is required to start the course. You only need to spend some time learning, willingness and knowing how to operate the computer. That's all, you'll learn everything else in the course.
The course continues at the intermediate level, where we develop the skills learned in this course.
Who this course is for:
- Students
- Researchers
- Spatial analysts
- People interested in GIS
- People interested in spatial analytics
- Administration
- Beginners in GIS
- Anyone who wants to learn something new
Featured review
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 2,412 Reviews
- 24,504 Students
- 9 Courses
I have a background in hydrology, and my work revolves around issues related to water resources and the dynamics of extremes such as droughts and floods. A significant part of my work involves analyzing spatial data, whether it's environmental features, the spatial distribution of work results, or data such as satellite imagery. I have been involved in teaching GIS since 2015, when, during my doctoral studies, I took on the responsibility of teaching Statistics and GIS in hydrological studies. A year later, I expanded the subject to cover the full range of GIS. This course served as the foundation for further work on materials in this field, leading to the publication of the first online course 'Introduction to GIS in QGIS3', in late 2018 and early 2019. Originally published on the Udemy platform, the course quickly gained the status of the highest-rated and bestseller.
In 2019, a modified version of the course was released in English, followed by two additional levels in the subsequent years. Since then, I have trained over 20,000 individuals, both in traditional classroom settings and online. Throughout my teaching career at a Polish university, I consistently ranked among the top ten instructors, and my online courses garnered over 2000 reviews with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5. At the end of 2021, I moved to the United States, where I currently work as Assistant Research Professor. In my daily work, I process large amounts of data using QGIS and ArcGIS programs, as well as scripts I write in Python. Large databases also require substantial computational power, but fortunately, in addition to workstations, I have access to a supercomputer (currently equipped with 70,560 cores and 350 TB of RAM, with its computational power set to double soon) for conducting necessary scientific calculations.