QGreenland Beginner's Tutorial Series - Session 5: Processing Toolbox and Data Analysis

QGreenland Beginner's Tutorial Series - Session 5: Processing Toolbox and Data Analysis

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 Objectives:

  • 00:00 – Locate and open the processing toolbox
  • 01:25 – Select by attribute in a vector layer
    Note: In v2.0, you’ll need to first use the field calculator to convert the population field from a string to an integer. See the “Read the Docs” link below for more details.
  • 06:48 – Run basic statistics on a vector attribute field, including sum, mean, and range
  • 10:15 – Calculate the surface volume area of a raster layer

Note:
The “Populated places” layer referenced in this video has been updated and moved from “Places/Community map (crowd-sourced)” to the root of the “Places/” layer group in QGreenland v3.

The updated “Populated places” layer includes a “Population 2016” attribute that should be used instead of the “population” attribute mentioned in the video.


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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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