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Ongoing Service Alteration

Please note: the ability to create your own user account has been suspended, due to excessive abuse by spambots, etc. However, we warmly welcome legitimate contributors. If you would like an account to make contributions to the tutorials on this site, please contact Scott Mitchell (see https://carleton.ca/geography/people/mitchell-scott/).

FOSS4G/GRASS workshops

• Intro to GRASS workshop General GRASS Introductory Tutorial (Used in workshop at Carleton, 17 October 2011)

Relevant help links for GEOM4008 Students

• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Students in GEOM 4008, please remember to create your own account in this system, and login to it when you write your wiki pages

Reorganizing

At this point, it really doesn't make sense to organize these tutorials by the year they were created. Using this space to organize them by broad topic category, and we'll eventually use this to replace the above temporally-based layout.

Tutorials organized by software used

QGIS

• Hospital Site Suitability Selection using QGIS by Melinda MacDonald (2017), revised by Jamie Carrick (2018)
• Remote Sensing Analysis in QGIS by Samjardine (2017), revised by Helena Back (2018)
• Fire spread through cost path analysis in QGIS GRASS by Eleni Latsis & Colton Male (2017)
• Flood Risk Assessment in QGIS by Ashley Ford & Kayla Charette (2017), revised by Paul Lavoie (2018)
• Digitizing in QGIS by Becky Trimble (2017)
• Exploring the Hydrological Tools in QGIS by Sarah Richardson and Fernanda Amaral (2015), revised by RJ Mitchell (2018)
• Fire Risk Analysis using QGIS by Ante Cavar and Adrian Nicoll (2015)
• Analyzing Crime Data in Ottawa using QGIS by User:Selimerguden (2015), revised by Rafael Seyler (2017)
• Exploring Standard Statistics in QGIS by Alexandra Laudadio and Katie MacDonald (2015)
• Determining Effects on Temperature Interpolations from Large Lakes using QGIS by Iain Burnett (2015)
• Automating Vector and Raster Workflows using the Graphical Modeler in QGIS by Ryder Burt (2015)
• Terrain Analysis with GRASS tools in QGIS Original Seyoum (2015), modified by Kirk Henike (2017)
• Creating IDW and Spline Interpolation Maps Using QGIS by Timothy Chadwick
• Network Analysis: Finding shortest path in QGIS by Besjana Osmenaj (2014), revised by Sam Jardine (2017)
• Slope Analysis using Quantum GIS Processing Toolbox by Kent Jacobs revised by Calvin Gale
• Hierarchical Cluster Analysis using QGIS and R by Tonia
• Spatial Analysis of Different Types of Traffic Accidents with QGIS by Stephanie Yeung (2014), revised by Melinda MacDonald (2017)
• Comparison of QGIS to ArcMap by Kate Dalonzo revised by Kayla Charette
• Natural Neighbour Analysis and Querying using QGIS by Lauren Procunier (2013)
• Comparative Analysis of Cost Path Analysis In Grass GIS and ArcMap by Neil Thompson (2013)
• Georeferencing Raster Imagery in QGIS using Vector Data by Renee Bazinet revised by Lukasz Quinn (2013)
• Interpolating a surface and determining overland flow distance via qGIS and SAGA GIS by Christopher Bot (2013)
• Database connection to QGIS using OpenGeo Explorer by Alexander Vetrov (2013)
• Evaluating Landscape Permeability in Quantum by Rosalie Murton and Sarah St. Germain (2012)
• Exploring terrain analysis using Quantum and GRASS GIS by Graham Rathwell (2012)
• Creating Static Maps using MapServer and Quantum GIS by Emily Lindsay (2012)
• Emergency Shelter Allocation Evaluation by User katiefeltz, Revised by Becky Trimble (2012)
• Visualizing Multi-Temporal Data with Time Manager by Neptune (2012)
• Off-Sea Evaluation of Unlicensed Mining Blocks in the North Sea by Matthew Judd and Brad Covell (2012)

GRASS

• Thematic Mapping using GrassGIS by Lucas Lambert Revised by Eleni Latsis (2015)
• Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by Sunflower (2012)

SAGA

• Cost Path Analysis of Mars using SAGA by Shah Khosraviani (2014), revised by Patrick Gosztonyi (2018)
• Georeferencing Raster Imagery in SAGA GIS by Alexander Oestreicher (2017)
• Introducing Geoprocessing Capabilities of SAGA in R Environment using RSAGA (Saga + Rstudio) by Uzayr Siddiqui (2015)
• Exploring a subset of SAGA's Terrain Analysis tools by Taylor McWade and Alexander Oestreicher (2015)
• Automation of Workflows within SAGA: Using Command Line Scripting to Increase Productivity by Sara Mannseichner (2015)
• Enhanced Wetness Modelling in SAGA GIS by Malek Singer (2015)
• Random Forest (ViGrA) Classification in SAGA by Cameron Samson (2014)
• Exploring Hydrological Analyses using SAGA GIS by Sohail Dham and Colin Doucette (2013)

Whitebox

• Hydrological Analysis Using Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools by Calvin Gale (2017)
• Change Detection using Whitebox by Daniel Miller (2014 ?)

R

• R Studio’s Spatial Capabilities going 3D! by RafSey (2017), revised by Timothy Kebbel (2018)
• Introducing Geoprocessing Capabilities of SAGA in R Environment using RSAGA (Saga + Rstudio) by Uzayr Siddiqui (2015)
• R Studio's Spatial Capabilities by Julia Riddick (2014)

GeoServer

• Developing a Web Map Server Using GeoServer by Benjamin Jarmyn (2012)

Mapwindow

• Terrain analysis for urban storm water modelling using Mapwindow in Surrey by Sorin Simniceanu (2013)

Mapserver

• Creating Static Maps using MapServer and Quantum GIS by Emily Lindsay (2012)

OpenLayers

• Using WMS with OpenLayers by Scott Page (2013)

OpenJMP

• Exploring the Thematic Capabilities of OpenJump by Stephen Plume (2015), revised by Hannah Anderson (2017)
• Highly Effective Construction of Thematic Maps by Thomas Brown (2013)

ILWIS

• Exploring Hydrological Analyses using ILWIS by Alice Wilson (2014)?
• Landfill Site Selection Using Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation in ILWIS by Oluwafemi Opaleye (2013)

CartoDB

• Spatial Pattern Analysis with CartoDB by Siefat Fatin (2013)

Tutorials organized by application area

Hydrology:

Cartography:

Digitizing:

Tutorials From 2010 and earlier

The tutorials from here down are old enough that I have not included them in the categorized lists above. If future students decide to update these ones, they are more than welcome to, and at that time it can be moved into the categorized lists above.

These are from a completed class, and the students have released control of the tutorial contents to the community. If you want to update/correct/improve any of these tutorials, please feel free to log in and help improve our tutorials.

Unless otherwise noted in the individual tutorial, all of these were originally developed on/for a Windows environment. Specifically, most students were using classroom computers running Windows XP, with QGIS 1.5 (including GRASS Tools), and FWTools. Please note that this environment imposed a 32 bit Windows XP constraint that prevented the system from using all the RAM in the computers, which is likely the culprit in those cases where the tutorial authors complained that the tools could not work with larger datasets.

2010 contributions:

• Image Classification Tutorial using Orfeo Toolbox by Philippe Gratton
• Spatial data management using PostGIS by Jean Bouffard
• Using GIS for Decision Support in Emergency Medical Services by Matt Leyenaar
• Multiple Criteria Evaluation in Allocating Land for Waste Incineration by Ja'far Rogers
• Wind turbine location suitability by Joe Rogers, revised by Colton Male
• Oil Platform Location Suitability using WMS by Kurtis Boyce
• Displaying Mineral Deposit Locations Across Canada using Web Services by Abuzar Popal
• Suitable Locations for the Reintroduction of the Black Tailed Prairie Dog by Jesse van den Berg
• Generating Wetness Indices for Watersheds in GRASS by Matt Giles revised by Ashley Ford

Previous Tutorials

A couple of tutorials from the 2008 class have been ported, but importing the remainder is hampered by version differences in the wiki software used to build them.

• Vancouver-Whistler race planning with GRASS and QGIS by Christian Bews
• Using GPX for the novice geocacher by Pauline Pyke