Open Source GIS (5 cr)
Code: BIP7004-3007
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.10.2023 - 31.10.2023
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.01.2024 - 30.04.2024
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 0 cr
- Virtual portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Distance learning
- Unit
- Metsätalousinsinöörikoulutus (MM)
- Campus
- Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 70
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Forestry
- Open University of Applied Sciences Studies
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
One learns to use OS GIS programs (mostly QGIS) and utilize free GIS datasets available online.
Content
QGIS installation to PC computer and Android handsets. Basic use of QGIS program. Basics of GIS and mapping (map objects, data types, ellipsoids, projections, coordinate systems): Open data sources, INSPIRE directive and different possibilities to utilize open GIS data.