Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software: An Open Source Lecture #GIS #Maps

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Published 2020-01-12
This video provides a tutorial of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. If you are new to GIS, this video will show what GIS is and what it can and cannot do.

Free and open source GIS software and data is used in the video.

This means you can start right away with using GIS without having to purchase software or find data.

Video Chapters:

0:00:00 Start
0:00:16 Introduction - Video Topics Overview
0:01:36 Learning Objectives
0:02:36 What is GIS?
0:03:22 Parts of GIS
0:05:07 Organizing the World Geographically: Map Layers
0:05:07 What Can You Do (and Not Do) with GIS Software?
0:05:07 Data and Spatial Asset Management
0:08:54 Storage Formats
0:10:15 Storage Formats - Shapefiles
0:11:22 Imagery
0:12:16 Relational Databases
0:13:06 Data Querying
0:13:55 Spatial Query
0:14:21 Table Joining
0:14:57 Spatial Analysis
0:15:44 GIS Programming - JavaScript
0:17:21 GIS Programming - Python
0:17:44 GIS Programming - Data Science
0:18:20 Modeling – “What If?” Scenarios
0:18:51 Modeling – Transportation
0:19:21 Cartography and Map Production
0:20:26 Time and Animation
0:21:12 3D and Animation
0:21:59 Mobile GIS and Field Data Collection
0:22:46 Mobile GIS and Field Data Collection: Drones
0:23:19 GIS Limitations
0:25:38 GIS Demonstration - Introduction
0:26:05 GIS Demonstration - QGIS Overview
0:26:37 GIS Demonstration - Basemaps and Open Street Map (OSM)
0:27:23 GIS Demonstration - Plugins
0:28:16 GIS Demonstration - Basic QGIS Use
0:28:54 GIS Demonstration - Adding Data to a QGIS Map (Mumbai India Datasets)
0:31:57 GIS Demonstration - Change Layer Symbology
0:34:00 GIS Demonstration - Toggle Layer Visibility
0:35:15 GIS Demonstration - Attribute Tables
0:36:12 GIS Demonstration - Attributes and Layer Symbology
0:37:16 GIS Demonstration - Attribute Tables and Query
0:39:20 GIS Demonstration - Raster Datasets
0:41:27 GIS Demonstration - Modifying Landsat Imagery Bands
0:43:37 GIS Demonstration - Measure Tool
0:44:05 GIS Demonstration - Importing Text Files
0:48:52 Video Summary

Follow these links to access to the software and data sets used in the video.

Software:

QGIS – The free and open source GIS software used in the video:

www.qgis.org/

Data:
The Mumbai India datasets – The data sets used in the video, available for free to download:

gisfordisastermanagement.com/#datasets

Topics discussed in the video include spatial data and asset management, imagery and remote sensing data querying and table joining, spatial analysis, GIS programming and application programming interfaces (APIs), spatial modeling, cartography, visualization, and map production, animation and 3D, mobile GIS and field data collection, and limitations of GIS.

A demonstration of GIS software is also provided to show you what GIS software looks like in practice.

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Brian Tomaszewski, Ph.D.
@bangeobrian
[email protected]
All Comments (21)
  • @MHAUSMAN
    Thanks for posting this overview on GIS. Looking forward to seeing more.
  • @spawntez
    Thank you very much, this was my first intro to GIS. I learned something new.
  • @7daysfan932
    I honestly thought when starting to learn about GIS in university that it would be a chore, but you managed to make it somehow interesting :P.
  • @vanessareed1172
    I'm a dev learning gis and this video is a great step in that journey. 👏🏾
  • @abiyottilahun1526
    Your video has given me a very good introduction of GIS. The video is very easy to understand and practice. Hope many more is to come
  • @prashantagarwal5781
    Brian I have just started to listen to your video. I am an adjunct professor. You have conveyed information in a very good way.
  • @JoannaU
    Best intro to GIS I have seen!!!
  • @jhanmaido8393
    Thank you so much for this video. God bless you more!!!!
  • @hikpod
    This Video is amazing. Thanks alot!!!!
  • @jamalaldinbadawi7726
    It is really great lecture, I benefit a lot, and would like to continue learning GIS from your Videos.
  • @robertlongoria765
    Thanks for the knowledge and for some, an excellent intorduction to a worthwile and producrtive career.
  • @peterm8517
    Brian, you have a pedagogical and engaging way of conveying knowledge on GIS. Your passion for its inherent possibilities transfers to viewers. Well done!
  • @jamesbell8861
    Most of this was 'over my head' ... but ... I've been playing around in QGIS, just enough, that nothing you were talking about was 'foreign'. Thank you for putting this Video together.
  • @nghnino
    Wow he presented it well, thank you very much for sharing
  • @BlessedFigTree
    Quality education, I am going to keep an eye out for your 2nd edition book coming out soon. Merci! QGIS downloaded and I started playing with it, I'm trying to learn Python and SQL related data science lately after encountering them a little bit in my geography courses. I want to learn more about shape files as they seem unique to GIS over the general data sciences.