Welcome to Geo-informatics for Agriculture
This course introduces you to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using QGIS.
Description
Strategic and operational management of national agriculture requires several spatial datasets. Integration of the varied datasets in a spatial database permits easy data management and analysis to support decision making. Geographic Information System (GIS) software provides a framework to support spatial data collection, management and analysis. This training manual introduces theoretical concepts and practical activities that reinforce understanding of agricultural spatial data management and analysis.
Topics
The course will introduce the following topics:
- Introduction to GIS
- Capturing and creating data
- Geographic and projected coordinate systems
- Spatial databases
- Spatial analysis and visualization
Software requirements
- Windows 10 or 11 environment.
- QGIS 3.28 LTR ‘Firenze’ available at this link https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html
- Datasets for the course are available for download on each topic page.
Useful geo-data sources
Dominica’s public Geographic Information System (GIS) repository
The Humanitarian Data Exchange