The Virtual Course on QGIS and remote Sensing organized by Action against Hunger and taught by experts from GIS4tech, a Spin-Off of the University of Granada with funding from the Directorate General of Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Commission (ECHO) and the Andalusian agency for Development Cooperation (AACID) intends to help improve the humanitarian response to the food insecurity of regional and national actors in the Dry Corridor of Central america, creating the competencies of professionals in humanitarian organizations, academic and public sector entities dedicated to the management of information of the SAN, providing them with the tools to develop an analysis using Geographical Information Systems and remote Sensing, their foundations and applications that facilitate the interpretation of data for supported decision making.
The course addresses the fundamentals of the conceptual, practical and methodological considerations for the management of Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing, applications, information processing, photo-interpretation and agroclimatic indicators from the Monitoring System of the SAN.
OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE
The main objective of this course is to provide students with the conceptual, practical, and methodological foundations for the management of Geographical Information Systems and contribute in the training for the analysis through remote Sensing, its foundations and applications, by combining theoretical concepts with practical exercises based on real projects.
Module 1: Introduction to QGIS
1.1. Session 1: Introduction to GIS and first steps.
1.2. Session 2: Table of attributes. Geoprocesos. Composition of map.
1.3. Session 3: MDE. Processing raster. Tweens space.
1.4. Session 4: Integration and cartography download. Remote services.
1.5. Session 5: 3D Visualization. Plugins.
Module 2: Remote sensing with QGIS
2.1. Session 1: Fundamentals of remote Sensing. Applications.
2.2. Session 2: Acquisition of data. Image processing. Photo-interpretation.
2.3. Session 3: Indices spectral and study of the vegetation.
2.4. Session 4: Cycles phenological. Image processing in the multitemporal analysis. Detection of changes.
2.5. Session 5: Indexes agroclimáticos. SM-SAN.
Jorge Hernández Marín
Engineer of Roads, Canals, and Ports at the University of Granada, GIS specialist by the master UNIGIS of the University of Girona and the co-Founder and CEO of GIS4tech S.L.
José Manuel Izquierdo Segovia
Graduate in Geography and Spatial Planning and Geophysics and Meteorology Master in the University of Murcia, with experience in the field of geospatial analysis and Satellital image processing. Currently, a member of GIS4tech.
The course will be held online and supervised by a teaching expert. There are synchronous sessions, in which the tutor proposes videoconference sessions by at a particular time. In addition, a study of the contents asynchronously is proposed, where each person can study at the time and place they want. These contents are based on pills of video and self-assessment activities, dynamisation of forums or practical work and tutorials led by a teacher.
The course presents a combination of several resources with the goal of facilitating the learning of the key concepts that allow to apply the acquired knowledge:
• Videos. Presentation and explanation of key concepts.
• Sessions by videoconference. Via Google meet or Teams that will be recorded to make them available to the participants.
• Contents. There will be training pills of navigable content.
• Activities. Shares in the forums through reflections raised, self-assessment activities and activities guided by the teacher.
• Bibliography. Throughout the course several readings will be recommended, some of them are mandatory to allow to expand the theoretical content of the module and others are recommended to expand the knowledge and/or interest in specific topics.
The system of evaluation will consist of several activities:
1. To overcome the online training will be required to perform all of the activities and pass them successfully.
2. In addition, the participation in the forums and the attendance at the video-conferencing sessions will be essential.
SAN managers of the humanitarian field interested in analyzing and visualizing information.
Correo electrónico: info@gis4tech.com