Conducting a Viewshed Analysis in QGIS

Introduction

Viewshed Tool

The Viewshed analysis is a powerful tool which allows users to "know how visible objects might be—for example, from which locations on the landscape will the water towers be visible if they are placed in a particular location," (ArcGis 2020). For this particular tutorial, the Viewshed analysis will be conducted in a QGIS setting. QGIS is an open source software that is available to all users. It is a powerful GIS software that is comparable to other paid software such as ArcGis Pro. There is no built in viewshed analysis tool for QGIS, thus forcing the user to install an open source plugin through the plugin function.

Installation of Viewshed in QGIS

Process

Before conducting the Viewshed analysis in QGIS the user will need to install the "Visual Analysis" plugin by...(To be continued) 1) Open QGIS 3.14 2) Select "Plugins" tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. 3) Select