QGreenland Beginner’s Tutorial Series - Session 2: Introduction to QGIS and QGreenland Core Package

QGreenland Beginner’s Tutorial Series - Session 2: Introduction to QGIS and QGreenland Core Package

QGreenland is a free mapping tool that supports interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision-making, and collaboration. 

The Beginner’s Tutorial Series contains seven videos designed to familiarize users with both GIS and the QGreenland data package. This one-hour series was adapted from the popular beginner workshops for those with little or no prior GIS experience.

Session 2 Objectives:

  • 00:20 – Download QGIS at https://qgis.org/en/site/
  • 00:37 – Download the QGreenland Core package at https://qgreenland.org
  • 00:57 – Gain a general understanding of what GIS and QGreenland are
  • 01:47 – Explore the QGreenland Core package folders

Additional documentation is available here.


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About the Presenter

QGreenland is led by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which is a part of the University of Colorado Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. The project is made possible through funding from the United States National Science Foundation (award #1928393 and 2324765) and through the generous efforts of our many collaborators including the NSF Arctic Data Center. 

Additional Resources

You can find additional documentation at https://qgreenland.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

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