Core GIS : Land Use Land Cover & Change Detection in QGIS

Become Expert in QGIS for Geopatial data Analysis (ie. Remote Sensing & GIS ) and learn Land Use and Land Cover mapping

Created by: Kate Alison
GIS & Data Science

What Will I Learn?

• Fully understand the basics of Land use and Land Cover (LULC) Mapping and Change Detection
• Get an introduction and fully understand to Remote Sensing relevant for LULC mapping
• Learn the most popular open-source GIS and Remote Sensing software tools (QGIS, SCP)
• Pre-process and analyze Remote Sensing images in QGIS
• Learn about supervise and unsupervised learning in remote sensing and their applications in GIS
• Learn how to obtain satellite data, apply image preprocessing, create training and validation data in QGIS
• Apply Machine Learning Remote Sensing based image classification in SCP and QGIS
• Apply change detection in QGIS
• Create your first LULC map based on satellite imagery for your report in QGIS
• You'll also have plenty of handy hints and tips that will be provided alongside the scripts for GIS & Remote Sensing analysis
• You'll have a copy of the practicals step-by-step manuals used in the course for your reference

Requirements

• An interest in working with geospatial data
• A working computer
• The course will be demonstrated using a QGIS version of Windows PC. Mac and Linux users will have to adapt the instructions to their operating systems.

Target audience

• Geographers, Programmers, geologists, biologists, social scientists, or every other expert who deals with GIS maps in their field