QOD May 2022 - qgis/QGIS GitHub Wiki
Welcome to the May QOD session Open QGIS Open sessions and new workflows.
Simply watch the Youtube Livestream and comment on the day, or catch the recording if you can't make the live session.
To keep up to date with QGIS Open Day events, please join the Telegram channel.
Virtual events will be taking place online (see links below) and in the links shared in the telegram group, all events are live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.
QGISOpenDay 27 May 2022
| No | Name | Time | Speaker | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open Session: QGIS, remote sensing and studying ocean health and whale strandings | 12h00 UTC | Penny Clarke | UK | English |
| 2 | New 3D and point cloud features in QGIS 3.26 | 13h00 UTC | Lutra Team | - | English |
| 3 | Title: Forest Visualisation Plugin: Proof of Concept Demonstration | 14h00 UTC | Mark Anothony Simpson | UK | English |
| 4 | Open QGIS chat | 15h00 UTC | Amy and Tim | - | English |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Amy via the Telegram Channel username @Amz |
| 2 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 3 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
Time: 27 May 2022 12h00 UTC.
Duration: ~ 60 mins
Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link, Jitsi Link
Presenters: Penny Clarke
Description: A QGIS user needs community advice! Penny Clarke, a PhD student at the British Antarctic Survey, is studying whale mass strandings from space, using satellite imagery.
Penny: Most efforts to analyze satellite imagery for wildlife have used ArcGIS and in an effort to make this an accessible tool, I hope to move towards using QGIS. The current challenge to using QGIS is the need to PanSharpen satellite imagery before analysis. In ArcGIS, there are the option to pansharpen using Brovey, ESRI, Gram Schmidt etc. As I understand there is a plugin, Orfeo Toolboox, for QGIS. I hoped to discuss with the QGIS community this plugin and understand the comparability to those available in ArcGIS, and to discuss if the community can recommend options/solutions to making this transition possible.
Monitoring whales and particularly understanding the threats to whales is critical, as they are influential to the structuring of marine ecosystems. Whales highly mobile and inaccessible lifestyle present considerable challenges for monitoring and conservation; however, as sentinel species, whale strandings can act as early warning systems. Rising multifaceted anthropogenic and environmental threats across the globe are likely to coincide with an increase in reported strandings, but monitoring is biased towards populated coastlines. Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery offers the prospect of upscaling monitoring of mass strandings in unpopulated and inaccessible areas, over broader spatial and temporal scales not possible with traditional monitoring methods, and can be used to retrospectively analyse historical stranding events. VHR satellite imagery is an emerging, complementary tool to monitor mass strandings; however, for this to be a viable tool for the long-term monitoring of mass strandings, significant technical, practical, and environmental considerations and challenges must be addressed.
Time: 27 May 2022 13h00 UTC.
Duration: ~ 60 mins
Venue: YouTube link, Jitsi
Presenters: Lutra Team
Description: We are going to through the list of brand new features that has been added in QGIS 3.24 and in the upcoming QGIS 3.26 release, mainly thanks to the recent crowdfunding campaign by Lutra Consulting, North Road and Hobu. Expect 3D map view improvements, cloud-optimized point clouds (COPC), elevation profiles and more exciting stuff!
Time: 27 May 2022 14h00 UTC.
Duration: ~ 45 mins
Venue: YouTube link, Jitsi
Presenters: Mark Anthony Simpson
Description: A demonstration of a forest visualisation plugin. The plugin overlays realistic tree images on point, polygon, and line shapefiles to aid in forest design and community engagement. Links: Linkedin www.silvascienta.com
Time: 27 May 2022 15h00 UTC.
Duration: ~ 60 mins
Venue: YouTube link, Jitsi
Presenters: Amy and Tim
Description: Join us for an open chat and hangout on QGIS.
You can do this too! We really encourage others to follow our initiative, using the wiki page link below to organise your plans (just add a section below the last one). You can host virtual meetups in the Jitsi room, plan your next steps to take QGIS further down the road to world domination and much much more. We encourage language and region-specific huddles, documentation improvement sessions, bug fixing, making beautiful maps, and working together to do amazing things with QGIS.
We would really love to see more events offered from our country user groups and broader user base. The content can be at any skill level and in any language you like, and the times can overlap if needed. So please feel free to organise your activities on this wiki page. The QGIS Open Day is also an ideal time to hold virtual country user group meet-ups - please share your activities on the open day schedule, so that even people from outside of your country user group can benefit from your presentations. Contact me (see below) if you need help adding your events to the wiki page.
You can spread the word! We have prepared the following materials so that you may easily copy and paste the relevant contents to publish on your media platform of choice to let others know about these awesome events.
About QGIS Open Day
Dear QGIS Users
On Friday, 27th May 2022 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is organised on the principle of self-organisation and community participation.
Programme
- Session 1: Open Session: QGIS, remote sensing and studying ocean health and whale strandings,Youtube Live Stream Link, Jitsi Link
- Session 2: New 3D and point cloud features in QGIS 3.26,YouTube link, Jitsi
- Session 3: Forest Visualisation Plugin: Proof of Concept Demonstration,YouTube link, Jitsi
- Session 4: Open QGIS Chat, YouTube link, Jitsi
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-May-2022 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.
All the events are recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams are automatically available for catch-up viewing. Be sure to check back here for updates!
- Event:Youtube channel Link
Participants are kindly reminded to please read and observe our QGIS Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement to make these events a great experience for everyone!
Please contact me, Amy by email [email protected] or via the Telegram Channel username @Amz if you have any queries or need help setting up events.
We look forward to seeing you there!