GIS Specialist training

GIS and Earth Observation - Information sources and analysis to support decision-making

3 - 6 October 2022

Program of the GIS specialist workshop

It is possible to access and download the training material here below :

Day 1 - Introduction to Spatial data and QGIS

Facilitator guide day 1

1) Welcome and Introduction to IdeaMapSudan

2) Introduction to GIS modelling

3) Using secondary data

4) Introduction to OGC Web Services

5) Downloading open-source data

6) Data quality and validation

7) Using primary data

8) Exercise - Introduction to QGIS

Day 2 - Spatial Data Collection and Analysis

Facilitator guide day 2

1) Open data collection tools - Using QField

2) Vector data analysis

3) Exercise - Vector analysis with QGIS

4) Raster data analysis

5) Exercise - Raster analysis with QGIS (Multi criteria overlay analysis)

Day 3 - Earth Observation

Facilitator guide day 3

1) Introduction to earth observation

2) Introduction to digital image processing

3) Exercise - Image classification (Machine Learning methods)

4) Exercise - Change Detection

5) Introduction to image classification

6) Exercise - Accuracy assessment

Day 4 - Modern Geospatial Methods

Facilitator guide day 4

1) Object based image analysis (OBIA)

2) Building footprint extraction

3) Building morphometrics

4) IDeAMapSudan - approach and modelling methodology

5) Khartoum State deprivation model - Exploring IDeAMapSudan