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GIS Specialist training

GIS and Earth Observation - Information sources and analysis to support decision-making

3 - 6 October 2022

Program of the GIS specialist workshop

It is possible to access and download the training material here below :

Day 1 - Introduction to Spatial data and QGIS
Facilitator guide day 1
1) Welcome and Introduction to IdeaMapSudan
2) Introduction to GIS modelling
3) Using secondary data
4) Introduction to OGC Web Services
5) Downloading open-source data
6) Data quality and validation
7) Using primary data
8) Exercise - Introduction to QGIS
Day 2 - Spatial Data Collection and Analysis
Facilitator guide day 2
1) Open data collection tools - Using QField
2) Vector data analysis
3) Exercise - Vector analysis with QGIS
4) Raster data analysis
5) Exercise - Raster analysis with QGIS (Multi criteria overlay analysis)
Day 3 - Earth Observation
Facilitator guide day 3
1) Introduction to earth observation
2) Introduction to digital image processing
3) Exercise - Image classification (Machine Learning methods)
4) Exercise - Change Detection
5) Introduction to image classification
6) Exercise - Accuracy assessment
Day 4 - Modern Geospatial Methods
Facilitator guide day 4
1) Object based image analysis (OBIA)
2) Building footprint extraction
3) Building morphometrics
4) IDeAMapSudan - approach and modelling methodology
5) Khartoum State deprivation model - Exploring IDeAMapSudan