Learn to process large spatial data using GDAL. This course covers command line techniques for raster and vector data manipulation without costly software.
This course dives into using GDAL to handle large GIS datasets. It's all about making spatial data processing simple, using command line commands, and eventually creating tools that save you tons of cash. It’s a fun, hands-on learning experience that cuts out the complexity!
using GDAL to process GIS data
Do you have lots of spatial data that you need to process? Do you work with really large datasets that are unmanageable with a traditional GIS? Do you need to access and exchange spatial data in different formats, and different systems? And, has the price of commercial offerings shocked you? If so, this course will teach you how to process very large spatial data, in different formats using simple command line syntax, using the free and open source product GDAL.
GDAL is one of the jewels of the open source community, and I want to help you understand how to leverage its power to process spatial data.
We'll start off slow, and I will show you how to manipulate raster and vector data with the GDAL command line. Then, before you know it, you'll be writing batch scripts to perform real world GIS processing. Finally, you'll end by creating an Extraction, Translate, and Loading (ETL) tool with a single GDAL command (some people pay thousands of dollars just to complete this task!).
Like all my courses, I'll work alongside you so that you actually learn how to do his. Be careful: after taking this course, you may never want to use a GIS GUI again.
understand what GDAL is, and how it is used
know how to read and interpret the help dialog for issuing GDAL commands
write single line GDAL commands to processing raster and vector data
4 Lectures
Dr. Arthur J. Lembo, Jr. is an educator with a passion for GIS and almost 30 years of GIS industry experience. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious New York State Chancellors award for Excellence in Teaching (2006), and the Maryland Board of Regents Teaching Award (2018) - both of these awards are the highest awards in academia...
we couldn't practice with local database because it was not provided to download
Fun course! But a bit more explanation would be helpful for each step. Sometimes it's a bit fast paced. Overall, it's good.
Until now, there were only some examples how to use GDAL/OGR.
Of course, this es also what I expect in such a course, but I hope that there will be some instructions, how to use GDAL/OGR in general (for example in which order the options have to be).
When watching on MacBook Pro the videos are badly cropped. Maybe it is how they are but it should be fixed.
YouTube have better videos for free
yeah it was fine, I needed more on Vector data, but overall it was pretty easy to follow. I wasn't able to do the second work project as I didn't have the data to work with. The Resources didnt seem to line up with the assignment.
Very nice introduction. I've learned a lot.
Thank you!
I'm doing this course just after VBA course by Leila Gharani, so that becomes my benchmark, so relatively the presentation can be improved, but no worries, I'm here for the knowledge, so the professor seems to have answers to my questions, so will go ahead with this course.
Very interesting and useful.
Was produced a while ago, so could use an update, but I was able to follow along and replicate the tasks nonetheless.
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Juergen B.
The course was very helpful.