Have you ever wanted to create your own maps, or integrate and visualize spatial datasets to examine changes in trends between locations and over time? Follow along with these training tutorials on QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) and learn key concepts, procedures and skills for performing common GIS tasks – such as creating maps, as well as joining, overlaying and visualizing spatial datasets. These tutorials are geared towards new GIS users. We’ll start with foundational concepts, and build towards more advanced topics throughout – demonstrating how with a few relatively easy steps you can get quite a lot out of GIS. You can then extend these skills to datasets of thematic relevance to you in addressing tasks faced in your day-to-day work.

ArcGIS tool and tutorial to convert the shapefiles into network format. The latest version of the tool is available at http://csun.uic.edu/codes/GISF2E.htmlUpdate: we now have added QGIS and python tools. To download them and learn more, visit http://csun.uic.edu/codes/GISF2E.htmlPlease cite: Karduni,A., Kermanshah, A., and Derrible, S., 2016, "A protocol to convert spatial polyline data to network formats and applications to world urban road networks", Scientific Data, 3:160046, Available at http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201646

This dataset is part of the QGIS beginner tutorial: https://youtu.be/wu42hyshx7Q

Raczynski, K., Grala, K., & Cartwright, J. H. (2024). GEO Tutorial: Work Automation in QGIS Using Model Builder. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 9Publication Date: 11/2024This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

This resources contains PDF files and Python notebook files that demonstrate how to create geospatial resources in HydroShare and how to use these resources through web services provided by the built-in HydroShare GeoServer instance. Geospatial resources can be consumed directly into ArcMap, ArcGIS, Story Maps, Quantum GIS (QGIS), Leaflet, and many other mapping environments. This provides HydroShare users with the ability to store data and retrieve it via services without needing to set up new data services. All tutorials cover how to add WMS and WFS connections. WCS connections are available for QGIS and are covered in the QGIS tutorial. The tutorials and examples provided here are intended to get the novice user up-to-speed with WMS and GeoServer, though we encourage users to read further on these topic using internet searches and other resources. Also included in this resource is a tutorial designed to that walk users through the process of creating a GeoServer connected resource.

The current list of available tutorials: - Creating a Resource - ArcGIS Pro - ArcMap - ArcGIS Story Maps - QGIS - IpyLeaflet - Folium

Raczynski, K., Nagel, A., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Hotspot Analysis in GIS. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 5Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

Raczynski, K., Nagel, A., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Batching GIS Tasks: a Way To Speed Up Repetitive Procedures. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document]

GEO Tutorial Number of Pages: 6 Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

This resource contains the test data for the GeoServer OGC Web Services tutorials for various GIS applications including ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, ArcGIS Story Maps, and QGIS. The contents of the data include a polygon shapefile, a polyline shapefile, a point shapefile, and a raster dataset; all of which pertain to the state of Utah, USA. The polygon shapefile is of every county in the state of Utah. The polyline is of every trail in the state of Utah. The point shapefile is the current list of GNIS place names in the state of Utah. The raster dataset covers a region in the center of the state of Utah. All datasets are projected to NAD 1983 Zone 12N.

Raczynski, K., Babineaux, C., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Dealing with Coastal Flooding series, part 9: Creating And Animating Timeseries. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 5Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

QGIS Intro and Instructions for Mapping Species Occurrences

Instructions for students to use aerial photos, Google Earth and QGIS to explore their fieldwork area prior to their field trip. This material was designed for first-year undergraduate Earth Sciences students, in preparation to a fieldwork in the French Alps. The fieldwork and this guide focuses on understanding the geology and geomorphology.The accompanying dataset.zip contains required gis-data, which are a DEM (SRTM) and Satellite images (Landsat). This dataset is without a topographic map (SCAN25 from IGN) due to licence constraint. For academic use, request your own licence from IGN (ign.fr) directly.

List of 144 tutorials of the Youtube channel TutorielGeo: https://www.youtube.com/user/tutorielgeo/featured

More than 200 free tutorial videos on Qgis, Postgis, Geoserver, Pentaho, Talend, Google Earth Pro... as well as webmapping technologies and database management: Oracle, Mysql, SQL Server. Here is the link to the store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tutorielgeo.mobileapps Here is the link to the website: https://tutorielgeo.com Here is the link of the Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/user/tutorielgeo Here is the link to the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Tutorielgeo-Geomatic-Tutorial-GIS-Tutorial-Webmapping-Tutorial-325658277554574/ Here is the link to the Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TutorielGeo Here is the link to the Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/b/117203987416263637144/+tutorielgeo/posts

Raczynski, K., Xavier, F., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Dealing with Coastal Flooding series, part 3B: Using Supervised Machine Learning For Land Use Land Cover Classification. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 8Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM raster tiles into one file, using the QGIS tool ‘Virtual Raster’. This simplifies the digital planning of a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’. Please note that the tutorial language is German! Link to Seilaplan website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

Für die Verwendung des QGIS Plugins Seilaplan zur digitalen Seillinienplanung ist ein digitales Höhenmodell (DHM) nötig. In diesem Tutorialvideo zeigen wir, wie man mit dem QGIS-Plugin Virtuelles Raster mehrere DHM-Kacheln zu einem einzigen Rasterfile zusammenfügen und abspeichern kann. Für die Seillinienplanung mit Seilaplan muss nun nur noch eine Datei, mein neues virtuelles Raster, ausgewählt werden. Link zur Seilaplan-Website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

Raczynski, K., Grala, K., Raczynska, J., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Generating Viewsheds: a Visibility Analysis. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 6Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

Quick Guide to Mapping Occurrences in QGIS

Raczynski, K., Nagel, A., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Dealing with Coastal Flooding series, part 6: Calculating Spatial Statistics Of Inundated Areas. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 5Publication Date: 06/2025This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’ plugin, the DTM can be obtained directly from Swisstopo. In this tutorial we explain step by step how to download the necessary DTM from the Swisstopo Website, and how to use it in QGIS for the digital planning of a cable line using the plugin ‘Seilaplan’. Please note that the tutorial language is German! Link to the elevation model on the swisstopo website: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/geodata/height/alti3d.htmltechnische_details Link to the rope map website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

Für die Verwendung des QGIS Plugins Seilaplan zur digitalen Seillinienplanung ist ein digitales Höhenmodell (DHM) nötig. Als Alternative zum Swiss Geo Downloader erklären wir in diesem Tutorial Schritt für Schritt, wie man das nötige Höhenmodell von der Swisstopo Webseite herunterladen und in QGIS zur Seillinienplanung verwenden kann. Link zum Höhenmodell auf der swisstopo Webseite: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/geodata/height/alti3d.htmltechnische_details Link zur Seilaplan-Website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

Raczynski, K., Nagel, A., & Cartwright, J. H. (2025). GEO Tutorial: Dealing with Coastal Flooding series, part 4: Hydrologic Raster Preparation: Resampling and Burning Stream Network: Geosystems Research Institute. [View Document] GEO TutorialNumber of Pages: 5Publication Date: 05/2025 This work was supported through funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Geospatial Modeling Grant, Award # NA19NOS4730207.

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