Follow on from Intermediate Course Part 2. Understanding the importance of the knowledge gained from the Foundation & Intermediate Courses, this course will teach you how to automate the multi-step and complex processes learned in the Foundation and Intermediate courses. These skills will allow you to streamline your workflow and allow the computer to do the tedious work. There are also a few additional neat outputs that will help you when consolidating different software platforms in the more specialised projects related to conservation, mining, agriculture and forestry. You will need to download and install QGIS from the Software/ Hardware Requirements page to complete this course. You will have completed the Foundation and Intermediate courses to complete this course correctly for a full understanding of what is going on in this course.
This course will take you an estimate of 3 hours to complete
Course Duration: 52:58:00 minutes
Free data is provided for this course
(check Course System Requirements page to make sure your computer can run the programs and therefore the data set)
Part 1
Introduction
- Follow on from Intermediate Course Part 2
- Understanding the importance of the knowledge gained from the Basics & Intermediate Courses in order to configure processing automation correctly
Process Automation
- What is it?
- How it works?
- Add layering
- Adding algorithms
- Clip Target Site
- RGB splitting (the importance of choosing the correct layer & processing sequences)
- Index Calculation (for QGIS versions 34.8 & older)
- Reclassify Index
- Cleaning data
- Convert to polygons
- Add data
- Process sequencing
- Linking processes
- Checking steps to ensure correct out puts
Part 2
Advanced Calculations & Trouble Shooting
- Complex Field Calculations. Calculating specific data using field calculator (Aggregating area data to align with DN values)
- The basics of working with data in Microsoft Excel
- Trouble Shooting automations when using map data of another site in a different UTM.
- Tips & Tricks
- BONUS TIPS: Ensuring that your study site is identified correctly each time you fly your site. This helps when looking at specific sites without the need for RTK precision.
DATA DOWNLOAD SECTION
Download the Data Sets, before continuing with the course.
Download Raw UAV Image Data Set
Download Pregenerated Map Data Set
