Marco Bernasocchi OPENGIS.ch
Angelina Savchuk 510, Netherlands Red Cross, Information Manager
Coen Nengerman GIS Engineer at Spatial Explorers BV
Ujaval Gandhi Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Saber Razmjooei Lutra Consulting
Stavros Stromatas Eurocontrol
Kurt Menke Septima
Dirk Voets Cobra Groeninzicht
Philipp Schüller Gemeinde Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf
Andreas Neumann Canton Solothurn, Department of Geoinformation
Benjamin Jakimow Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Nina Jakobs GEO-Consultant & UI/UX Designer at GeoNovation
Zoubida NEMER PhD student in Geophysics at the University of sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene Algeria.
Hans van der Kwast IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Johannes Kröger WhereGroup GmbH
Jonna Bosch GeoCat - Title: Training & Consultancy
Leendert van Wolfswinkel Product Owner 3Di Modeller Interface, Nelen & Schuurmans
Andreas Janz Humboldt-University zu Berlin
Martin Dobias CTO @ Lutra Consulting Ltd
Martin Dobias CTO @ Lutra Consulting Ltd
Stefanos Natsis Lutra Consulting ltd, software developer
Suzan Dehati IHE Delft institute for water education
Matthias Kuhn OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi OPENGIS.ch
Nathan Smail Sevenson Environmental Services, GIS Specialist
Kateryna Konieva Speckle Systems
Arendjan van der Neut Generation.energy - GIS specialist
Bram Corneliszen Provincie Gelderland
Michal Pilarski Boeing, Software Engineer and GIS analyst
Tammo Jan Dijkema ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Caroline Robinson Unite Lead, Executive Board Member, Women+ in Geospatial
Robert Coup Head of Technology at Koordinates
Berit Mohr GFA Consulting Group GmbH, GIS Consultant
Mike Vogt Fraunhofer IEE
Nick Verwaal MAPLAB, Creative Director
Ujaval Gandhi Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Saber Razmjooei Lutra Consulting
Kurt Menke Septima
Hans van der Kwast IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Andreas Neumann Canton Solothurn, Department of Geoinformation
Tudor Bărăscu QCooperative
Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative
Derek van Bochove & Quinten Dengerink consultants at Geon bv
Marco Bernasocchi OPENGIS.ch
Winifred Broeder Independent cartographer @ Landkaartje
dr. Sybren A. Stüvel Blender, software developer
These are all currently confirmed sessions for the conference and onboarding day. Exact dates and times will be programmed later.
Due to cancellations there might be changes in the programme, so keep an eye on this page.
Tudor Bărăscu , QCooperative
Tudor is a mechanical engineer and a QGIS contributor. He has extensive experience in QGIS deployments (Desktop, Server, Web, data models) for public utilities companies. Also a QGIS trainer, he loves teaching and promoting QGIS all over the world. He is also a OSGeo charter member, member of the romanian OSGeo local chapter and of the local QGIS organisation.
Jorge Gustavo ,
Carlos López Quintanilla ,
Akash Biswal , National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
I am Akash Biswal, currently working as a Research Scientist at National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India. I have a combined experience of 6 year of working in the field of air quality sciences and the real world implications. I have published 9 papers in reputed international journal with average impact factor of 8 (Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=NJ6e6M8AAAAJ&hl=en).
TATIANA PARÁ MONTEIRO DE FREITAS , IFPA
Hi, I'm the IFPA teacher, Tatiana Pará, I have a master's degree in development and management of the Amazon, a specialist in Geotechnologies and an agricultural engineer.
I work with university extension, taking geoprocessing tools to remote communities in the state of Pará, promoting the inclusion of girls and women in the world of STEM. I founded the group Meninas da Geo and I work with management activities and collaborative cartography.
I am a mentor for the Youthmappers IFPA chapter and have several research activities related to monitoring deforestation in the Amazon. My focus is to get new people into basic education that can use free geotechnologies (OSGEO) as a tool for decision making.
https://about.me/tatipmdefreitas/getstarted
Coen Nengerman , GIS Engineer at Spatial Explorers BV
I studied Water System Analysis at Larenstein. I started using GIS (ArcView) in 1999. I worked at Nelen & Schuurmans (Water Management Constancy firm) from 2005-2014. From 2014 I worked as a freelance GIS Specialist. In 2018 I started the company Spatial Explorers to build Web Applications with geodata.
Ujaval Gandhi , Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified training provider and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications.
Dulari Parmar , Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action - Project Associate
Hi, I am Dulari Parmar, I am an architect-urban designer from Mumbai. I work as a Project Associate at YUVA's Climate Justice project. I have been working with communities and grassroots organisations in India. I believe that mapping is a powerful tool that can be used to drive people's demands on development and conservation. I am an avid bird watcher and have interests in learning natural history.
Saber Razmjooei , Lutra Consulting
Saber has been an active member of QGIS community since 2009. In the past, he has been helping organising QGIS developers meeting, triage of QGIS bugs. Recently, he has been helping coordination of large crowdfunding efforts to improve QGIS 3D and point cloud support.
Stavros Stromatas , Eurocontrol
Dr Stavros Stromatas is an air-quality research scientist with a special interest in aviation’s environmental footprint. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the French Ecole Polytechnique (X), and a Master’s degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris VI). For his PhD, he worked at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD). He has been substantially involved in the development of EUROCONTROL’s Open-ALAQS, an emissions inventory generation tool for performing Airport Local Air Quality (ALAQS) studies.
Kurt Menke , Septima
In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima in Copenhagen. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. He is an early adopter of QGIS having first downloaded it in 2005. In 2022 he published his eighth and ninth books on QGIS: Discover QGIS 3.x - Second Edition and QGIS for Hydrological Applications - Second Edition, both with Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.
Piergiorgio Cipriano , Deda Next (project manager)
GIS/SDI analyst since 1998, in Deda since 2005; in 2012-2013 I have joined the JRC of European Commission, on INSPIRE-related projects.
Passionate about maps, cartograms and storymaps, with focus on city-level data about air quality, energy performance of buildings, sustainable mobility.
Years ago, member of ISO/TC211 and CEN/TC287 working groups on standards for geographic information and services.
Now working on innovation projects related to data space, climate change, green deal (Horizon Europe, H2020, ETI Climate-KIC, ...).
Tanmoy Basu , Katwa College, The University of Burdwan
Tanmoy Basu, the presenter is an Indian resident who completed his Masters in Science in Geography 2016 and qualified National Eligibility Test in the year 2017 with awarding Junior Research Fellowship letter. He has been engaging as a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Katwa College, West Bengal, 713130 in India from 2017 to the present. His research interest revolves around agricultural geography, geospatial techniques, statistical applications in geographical research, socio-economic development, sustainability analyses, and disaster management. He was awarded the 1st rank holder certificate in post-graduation from the University of Kalyani, India in 2017 and full travel, accommodation, and registration grant in the 1st IGU-AGLE conference at Yulin, China in the same year. The author is also continuing activities in research and learning including Ph.D. coursework (2018-19, 2019-20) till the present.
Hans van der Kwast , IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Hans van der Kwast is Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Hans holds a PhD in Physical Geography. Since 2012 he has worked at IHE Delft, the largest international graduate education institute in the field of water. In his teaching and capacity-development projects he actively promotes the use of open source tools and open data by young professionals from the water sector in the Global South. Through the GIS OpenCourseWare platform and his popular YouTube channel he shares free tutorials. He is a board member of the Dutch QGIS Users Association, OSGeo Charter Member and has his own consultancy QWAST-GIS. He co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.
Victor Iko-ojo Idakwo , University of maiduguri, Graduate Assistant
Mr. Victor Ikojo Idakwo is a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Maiduguri. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in urban and Regional Planning, specializing in Geographic Information Systems, at Modibbo Adama University Yola and Urban and Regional Planning-Planning Information Technology, at Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nigeria. With over five years of experience in GIS and urban planning, he has a deep understanding of how to use spatial data to address urban planning challenges.
Mr. Idakwo has played key roles in various GIS and urban planning projects. He served as a GIS Expert and Data Collection Coordinator for the Taraba Geographic Information System and was responsible for providing technical support in data collection, management, and analysis. He also served as a Project Manager at the SFTAS IMO State Program Unit, where he oversaw the implementation of the Subnational Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) program.
With his expertise in GIS and urban planning, Mr. Idakwo has been able to contribute to various research works and publications. He is committed to using his knowledge and experience to support sustainable urban development in Nigeria and beyond.
Philipp Schüller , Gemeinde Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf
B.Sc. Geography
M.Sc. Urban and regional planning
Used to work in a company specialized in sport-oriented urban planing, now working in the public sector in the field of urban planing. In all those stations worked with QGIS, more or less self-taught
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData
Ing. Agrónomo con experiencia y formación en proyectos ambientales, agronómicos, hidrológicos, hidráulicos, agroindustriales, en salud pública, emergencia humanitaria y sanitaria, bajo ambiente GIS-POWER BI y modelado de datos espaciales.
MOHAMMED ALI HUMRAN , TUOAA, Mr
Moahmmed Ali Ahmed Humran, Yemen and I’m Geopolitical and Strategic planning. Currently, President The Union of Arab Academics .I’m is interested in geopolitics , international relations , researches, development and innovations .I graduated from Sana’a University and US naval war college , so gained Master degree in Geography , Diploma in Diplomacy and international Relation , 2 bachelor's degree in geography a and maritime science from Yemen , as well as he gained Diploma from US naval war college in 2011, beside that he has diploma at English language from DLI , US . I founded and established The Union of Arab Academics in 8, January 2018 that is full member of International Federation innovations Associations. His ideas that communicate and unify efforts with academics, researches, specifics, experts to unify efforts innovations, researches is the best way to build and achieve a modern Arab strategy. I have conducted partnership with 35 local, regional international organization hat interested in researches, innovations, journal, universities, development and training centers around the world and have been participation on many regional, international conferences and shows, conducted many researches and innovations, so he gained many local and international awards such as International Leadership award at Management and innovations from UK in 2019. I have been working on international committee of innovations and researches as well as he is member of IGU, Yemen Geography Society. He is member editorial chairman of African and Arab journal for strategic study, and he is member of editorial chairman of Patent Magazine.
Benjamin Jakimow , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Geographer with background in computer and agricultural sciences, specialized in remote sensing.
Researcher in the Earth Observation Lab of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
PhD Geography, 2022
Developer of QGIS plugins (https://plugins.qgis.org/search/?q=jakimowb), e.g. the
EnMAP-Box, a plugin to visualize, analyse and process imaging spectroscopy data and other remote sensing imagery.
Started using QGIS in 2014, because ArcGIS failed to connect with a GPS mouse.
QGIS helped him a lot to navigate through the Brazilian Amazon first, and later on his PhD thesis ("Landsat and Sentinel-2 based analysis of land use in the Brazilian Amazon: The agricultural frontier of Novo Progresso").
Zoubida NEMER , PhD student in Geophysics at the University of sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene Algeria.
Zoubida Nemer is a PhD student in Geophysics at the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria. Her research focuses on hydrogeophysical studies and environmental issues, with a particular interest in developing sustainable water management strategies. As an active environmentalist, Zoubida is committed to engaging with communities to ensure a sustainable future for our planet. She is particularly fond of open-access tools and software, and strongly believes that science can make a positive impact on the world. Through her research and advocacy work, Zoubida hopes to contribute to building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.
Jonna Bosch , GeoCat - Title: Training & Consultancy
Since the beginning of this year I am working at GeoCat as trainer/consultant for publishing (meta)data and maps to GeoNetwork and GeoServer. For more than 17 years I am a trainer and analyst in for instance QGIS, cartography, Postgis, datamodelling. Basically: everything with maps.
I love (making) maps and working with geodata and I am always looking for special, new, or user-friendly perspectives. I like to share my experience, for example by participating in De Grote Geo Show (tv.osgeo.nl), writing about maps or helping around at a conference or maptime.
My main hobbies are music and graphic design. I play guitar and go to concerts, Roadburn festival. I like to drink a (local) special beer with friends or while enjoying a concert, movie or a (comic) book.
Derek van Bochove & Quinten Dengerink , consultants at Geon bv
We are consultants at Geon bv, a geo-information consultancy based in Groningen, the Netherlands. We help our clients get the best out of geo! We support them with consultancy, training, project management and data management.
Leendert van Wolfswinkel , Product Owner 3Di Modeller Interface, Nelen & Schuurmans
I am a Dutch GIS specialist in the field of water management, urban drainage and hydrodynamic modelling. I am fascinated by the challenge of translating complex topics and datasets to understandable information for clients. And in developing tooling that enabled other to do this. I graduated from Wageningen University in 2010 (Msc. International Land and Water Management) and have worked in GIS and water management in academia, government and consulting. In the past six years I worked at Nelen & Schuurmans, as water management consultant and product owner for the 3Di Modeller Interface.
Dimitrios Kopanelis , Agricultural University of Athens - BSc/ Intergrated Master in Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering
Dimitrios Kopanelis is a highly accomplished and knowledgeable graduate of Agricultural University of Athens, with a specialization in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. Graduating in 2022 with an excellent overall GPA, I have demonstrated an exceptional ability to comprehend and apply knowledge in the field of agricultural science. As a student, i also pursued an academic minor in Coastal Development and Sustainable Maritime Tourism through the EU-CONEXUS program. The program helped me gain additional knowledge on Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing, Ecological Psychology, Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Areas, Sustainable built environment, and Natural hazards in coastal regions.
Andreas Janz , Humboldt-University zu Berlin
I was educated at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin as an computer scientist with a strong background in remote sensing, geoinformatics and maschine learning.
I fully support open science, free and open-source software, and published several QGIS plugins throughout the last years:
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/user/janzandr/admin
I am a full time software developer at Humboldt-University with a strong focus on QGIS Plugin development.
Stefanos Natsis , Lutra Consulting ltd, software developer
Studied survey engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. My love for QGIS and open source drove me from gis power user to QGIS core developer. I now work as a software developer for Lutra Consulting ltd, squashing bugs and bringing new features to the best gis platform out there.
Suzan Dehati , IHE Delft institute for water education
Suzan Dehati is an Afghan student currently pursuing her Master's degree in Water Management and Governance from IHE Delft and holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Kabul University. Her Master's thesis focuses on equity assessment for transboundary water resources management using remote sensing data and QGIS.
She has participated in various extracurricular activities during her studies, including volunteering with local and international NGOs and participating in environmental awareness campaigns. She is passionate about using her knowledge and skills to make a positive difference in the community and is committed to pursuing a career in the water sector with a focus on promoting cooperation and ensuring equitable access to water resource.
Additionally, she expresses her heartfelt gratitude for the financial support she received from QGISHydro Book Fund, which enabled her to attend the QGIS conference and expand her knowledge and skills in the field of water management, and to network with professionals and experts from all around the world.
Thiasha Vythilingam , Kartoza
My name is Thiasha Vythilingam, I am 26 years old and am from Johannesburg, South Africa. I work at Kartoza as a junior GIS specialist and have a BSc in Geography from the University of Pretoria. I am passionate about all things cartography and the the wondrous possibilities that it brings.
Divan Divan , Kartoza
Studied at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where I did my bachelours, honours and masters degrees in Geo-informatics. Been making use of Python to perform data analytics, and creating plugins for QGIS. Used to work at Stellenbosch University, and have been working at Kartoza for about 2 years.
Matthias Kuhn , OPENGIS.ch
My interest for software development started as soon as I had access to a computer. I decided to make from a hobby a job and studied programming. At the same time I started to use open source wherever possible, out of interest for the code as well as a fascination by the idea to collaborate and share.
Because the world is not just bits and bytes and because investigating cultural as well as physical questions gives a lot of insights, studying Geography was just what I was looking for and combined with a minor in cartography offered even a creative part.
All this time I continued to work in various IT and communication related jobs where I had the chance to complete my full stack ninja abilities in projects form embedded system to server environments.
One day I heard about QGIS and it wasn't hard to realize that this was just the perfect combination of all my interest and skills: spatial problems, information technology and open source.
After a couple of freelance projects I ended up founding OPENGIS.ch together with Marco Bernasocchi.
I strive to enable everyone to use powerful, high quality tools for understanding the world with QGIS in the office and QField on the go.
Marco Bernasocchi , OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.
Nathan Smail , Sevenson Environmental Services, GIS Specialist
I graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Geology and German Language, and due to COVID decided to get my MS in Geology and Earth Science at the University of Iceland studying Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Events using remote sensing techniques. This is where I first made the switch from ArcGIS to QGIS and became obsessed with the software and it's capabilities. After graduating, I began working at Sevenson Environmental Services in New Jersey at a DuPont plant where they developed chemicals for the Manhattan Project, burying radioactive materials in the ground. Now we work to present data on the cleanup and remediation of this contamination.
Kateryna Konieva , Speckle Systems
Urban planner, computational designer with occasional teaching and moderation activities. Art will save the world, and I do my part through photography. Past @ Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre.
Speckle is open source digital infrastructure for anything designed in 3D. We handle interoperability between software silos, real time collaboration, data management, versioning and automation.
Seabilwe Tilodi , Kartoza and Miss
Seabilwe has an MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has an Honours degree in Geography and a BSc in Geological Science, both from the University of the Witwatersrand. Seabilwe is a Junior GIS specialist at Kartoza, passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems in the area of agroclimatology. And also explore various open-source software which can be used to map factors affecting crops on arable land. Her geological background made her wonder what tool can be used to make field data collection precise, effective and simple. After joining Kartoza, she discovered great mobile field data capture applications that have revolutionised how data is collected, analysed and viewed in the field, and cannot wait to explore more. Spreading knowledge is the main mandate. She enjoys training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. The teaching of practical GIS at the secondary level has helped her to realise that more sustainable methods of teaching GIS need to be implemented in all sectors of the educational sphere. She has taken up photography as her hobby, mostly taking shots of flowers. She enjoys baking, listening to music and watching animé or cartoons with her little sister.
Bram Corneliszen , Provincie Gelderland
I started using (Q)GIS in 2016 and after following a GIS course I had the chance to set up the GIS team with Van Oord, a international Dredging and Marine Contractor. I am currently working for the Provincie Gelderland as informationmanager and involved in the BIM and GIS developments where we streamline our assetmanagement process.
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Michal Pilarski , Boeing, Software Engineer and GIS analyst
During his career, Michal has been always connected with geospatial data and GIS geoprocessing (over 10 years). He likes to find and overcome challenges in Testing Big Data with geometry attributes. He has experience in preparing the testing strategies for ETL systems that extract, transform and load massive geospatial data. His technology stack is related to Python, Pytest, ArcGIS, ArcPy, QGIS, PyQGIS, FME, Robot Framework, HP ALM, and Geopandas. Speaker of many technical meetups and presenter on international conferences related to software testing.
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData Gerente de Programas
Agricultural Engineer M. Cs. in Environmental Sciences, with experience in agronomic, agro-industrial, environmental, hydrological, humanitarian, public health and sanitary projects through GIS environment and spatial data modeling.
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData
Agricultural Engineer with M. Cs. Environmental, and expertise in agronomic, environmental, agro-industrial, hydrological, sanitary, and public health projects, using a GIS environment and spatial data modeling.
Immo Blecher , Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft, Geodata-Analyst
I am a Geologist by training and have worked in the Groundwater and Mineral Exploration Industry for many years in South Africa and most of Africa south of the equator. My work maily included mapping and evaluation with various GIS programs and databases, including ArcGIS, QGIS, MySQL, Spatialite, PostGIS and others. I have also deveolped a water management software called Aquabase and a few QGIS plugins, one of which is available in the repository. Since May 2022 I am a geodata-analyst at the MIG, where I run the biannual mobile utility analysis for potential funding by the German government.
Celestine Aisa OFOI , Mineral Resources Authority - Cartographer / GIS
Having worked as a Cartographer and GIS specialist for 23 years now.
Graduated with a Diploma in Cartography from the PNG University of Technology.
ATANGANA JACQUES LANDRY , SIC - Chargé d'Etudes Assistant
Camerounais âgé de 31ans, Je suis Géomaticien et Ingénieur du Cadastre Assermenté au MINDCAF en détachement à la Société Immobilière du Cameroun où j'occupe le poste de Chargé d’Études Assistant N°1, avec plus de 10ans d’expérience.
Sur le plan académique, je suis titulaire d'un diplôme d’Ingénieur Topographie-Cadastre et d'un Master 2 en Cartographie, SIG et Télédétection, Université de Yaoundé 1.
Je suis également membre de plusieurs organisation professionnel en occurrence : -l'Association OPENSTREETMAP CAMEROUN, en tant Vice-président depuis 2013 et Conférencier du SOTM AFRICA. -l'Ordre des Géomètres Experts du Cameroun, en tant Membre inscrit depuis 2022.
En termes d’expérience professionnel :
- Chargé de projet géomatique à SOGEFI France ;
- Projet de Renforcement de la fiabilité des Mappes Foncières des Services du Cadastre du MINDCAF ;
- Travaux de réalisation des Plans cadastraux numériques, dans les villes de Douala et Yaoundé ;
- Projet Modernisation du cadastre et des domaines : numérisation et indexation des archives du Cadastre, dans le cadre du PAMOCCA MOD1 - FSN ;
- Projet PULCI (Cartographie des zones à risque d’inondations dans la région de l’extrême nord, Cameroun) ;
- Mise en place d’un Géoportail citoyen des Centres d’États Civils au Cameroun ;
- Production de spatio-cartes au 1/100 000e autour de TANANARIVE (MADAGASCAR) ;
- Projet de Création d’un référentiel de réseaux viaire et numérisation des enseignes publicitaires avec le logiciel IMAJVIEW PRO.
- Etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/atangana-jacques-landry-3a971697/
dr. Sybren A. Stüvel , Blender, software developer
Sybren works as Blender developer, where he manage the Animation & Rigging module, and works on Flamenco, the dependency graph, and the integration of various file formats. Apart from his work on Blender, he also develop various other Open Source projects, such as Flatterer (for exporting shapes from Blender to a laser cutter) and Skyfill (for filling up skies in drone panoramas).
John Holden , Consultant, Statto Consulting
John Holden is an environmental and political consultant and computer programmer. Mr Holden has provided reapportioning advice for several different lawsuits in the United States and has used QGIS in a number of different countries on environmental projects.
Angelina Savchuk , 510, Netherlands Red Cross, Information Manager
(Geo)data Analyst at 510, Netherlands Red Cross. Master degree in Geographical Information Management & Application (GIMA) from Utrecht University. Professional achievement - has made maps for the Red Cross operations during the offset of Ukraine crisis (using QGIS of course!).
Tammo Jan Dijkema , ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Scientific Software Engineer at ASTRON, with a PhD in Mathematics / Numerical Analysis. At ASTRON, my work consists of many aspects of the LOFAR radio telescope, ranging from geodesy for site selection to calibration (in C++ and Python) of the generated data.
Caroline Robinson , Unite Lead, Executive Board Member, Women+ in Geospatial
Caroline is Founder and Lead Cartographer at Clear Mapping Co. She has been in defence, government, transport, energy, planning and environment, advocating for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) in the geospatial sector.Caroline is a Journalist for Maplines, the membership magazine, for the British Cartographic Society. She is a member and Middle Manager with the Chartered Management Institute. Caroline is a Fellow and Chartered Geographer with the Royal Geographical Society. She has a keen interest in sustainability, resilience and supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Berit Mohr , GFA Consulting Group GmbH, GIS Consultant
Berit is a GIS Consultant within the Digital Innovation Unit at the GFA Consulting Group GmbH in Hamburg. GFA is a company working in the development cooperation sector. Donors are typically governments, development banks etc. Berit has a background in Geology, Environmental Science and GIS and Remote Sensing. She has worked across sectors including Academia, Local government, international government and start-ups. Her passion is in using GIS and EO to make data visible and understandable for everyone. In her spare time Berit loves to be out hiking, in the garden and be part of the natural environment.
Nick Verwaal , MAPLAB, Creative Director
I'm a graduate of the TU Delft System and Control engineering. Having worked as process manager and engineering manager in one of the larger shipbuilding companies in the Netherlands my path lead me to starting my own company: MAPLAB. Here I currently focus on product development and improving our own in-house built laser cutting machines to deliver the worlds most outstanding hardwood map art.
Air quality is a new issue for policymakers all over the world. The articulation of geolocated sources and their contribution to pollution can be efficiently mapped and presented using QGIS. For novice researchers, thousands of geospatial analyses can be completed quickly and easily. I will present various applications such as raster, vector interaction, and efficient gridding of anthropogenic emissions as ready-to-input for various air quality applications. The efficient use of QGIS operations in Model Builder as well as the use of the Python console will be demonstrated. The lecture will aim to strengthen the foundation of young aspiring air quality researchers.
Akash Biswal , National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
I am Akash Biswal, currently working as a Research Scientist at National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India. I have a combined experience of 6 year of working in the field of air quality sciences and the real world implications. I have published 9 papers in reputed international journal with average impact factor of 8 (Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=NJ6e6M8AAAAJ&hl=en).
A proposta desta de palestra é mostrar como o uso do qgis/osgeo torna a inclusão de meninas e mulheres na área das STEM por meio do projeto meninas da geo, que oferece cursos e treinamento gratuitos à jovens de baixa renda da Amazônia.
Dessa forma, a proposta seria apresentar em 30 minutos os resultados do projeto e incentivar novos grupos a criarem projetos semelhantes para atenderem a ODS 5.
TATIANA PARÁ MONTEIRO DE FREITAS , IFPA
Hi, I'm the IFPA teacher, Tatiana Pará, I have a master's degree in development and management of the Amazon, a specialist in Geotechnologies and an agricultural engineer.
I work with university extension, taking geoprocessing tools to remote communities in the state of Pará, promoting the inclusion of girls and women in the world of STEM. I founded the group Meninas da Geo and I work with management activities and collaborative cartography.
I am a mentor for the Youthmappers IFPA chapter and have several research activities related to monitoring deforestation in the Amazon. My focus is to get new people into basic education that can use free geotechnologies (OSGEO) as a tool for decision making.
https://about.me/tatipmdefreitas/getstarted
I will show how to use the Input fieldwork app to collect data and export this easily to the NDFF (National Database Flora and Fauna) format.
Coen Nengerman , GIS Engineer at Spatial Explorers BV
I studied Water System Analysis at Larenstein. I started using GIS (ArcView) in 1999. I worked at Nelen & Schuurmans (Water Management Constancy firm) from 2005-2014. From 2014 I worked as a freelance GIS Specialist. In 2018 I started the company Spatial Explorers to build Web Applications with geodata.
This 3-hour hands-on workshop will cover the whole range of QGIS expressions and how to apply them for data analysis and visualization. It will cover the basics of the QGIS expression engine, operators, conditionals and functions. We will then cover a range of applications where the participants will learn how to apply expressions to perform a variety of tasks in QGIS. The workshop will cover the following topics
- Expressions Basics
- Expressions for Data Processing
- Data-defined Overrides
- Geometry Generators
- Advanced Expressions (aggregate, array_foreach and eval)
The workshop is suitable for QGIS users who are familiar with the expressions and want to take their skills to the next level.
Ujaval Gandhi , Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified training provider and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications.
QGIS can help urban planners leverage spatial data for a range of tasks. As part of our recent work, we explored over 100 applications in 6 themes where users can leverage QGIS for urban and regional planning. The talk will be an overview of these applications that showcase QGIS's capabilities to solve problems in the following areas:
- Land Use Planning and Management
- Crime Mapping and Analysis
- Solid Waste Management
- Urban Infrastructure and Utilities
- Urban Transportation
- Spatial Planning
The talk will also cover useful open datasets and resources to start using QGIS to solve local and regional problems.
Ujaval Gandhi , Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified training provider and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications.
QGIS allows you to define custom Actions on map layers. This action can run commands or python code when the user clicks on a feature. This workshop will cover QGIS Actions in detail along with demos on how you can harness its power to automate GIS workflows. We will focus on Python Actions and go through various examples of implementing new functionality and automating tasks with just a few lines of PyQGIS code.
This workshop requires prior knowledge of Python and familiarity with PyQGIS API.
Ujaval Gandhi , Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified training provider and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications.
This workshop is ideal for anyone who is looking to get started with PyQGIS development. We will start with a minimal plugin template and understand how to create a working QGIS plugin. You will also get a good understanding of what plugins can do and what seup is required for plugin development. Participants are expected to be familiar with Python but no prior experience with PyQGIS is required.
Ujaval Gandhi , Founder, Spatial Thoughts
Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified training provider and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications.
Vulnerability is an indicator of the possibility of harm that might affect an individual, community or region. It is multi-dimensional, differential, scale-dependent and dynamic, as it depends on time, space, and units of analysis. Within the realm of climate science, vulnerability has been understood as an intangible yet extremely crucial factor to determine the future risks. It cannot be understood purely in relation to the impacts of climate change or a natural hazard, instead, it needs to integrate social systems. Thus, through YUVA’s Climate Justice Project, a climate vulnerability assessment in an urban poor community in Mumbai, India was conducted. We used tools of mapping to understanding existing climate vulnerabilities like heat, flooding and cyclones. Through QGIS we overlaid community-based qualitative mapping with historical maps and climate hazard maps. Through this we seek to develop a Community Climate Action Plan guiding towards community-based Climate Adaptations.
Dulari Parmar , Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action - Project Associate
Hi, I am Dulari Parmar, I am an architect-urban designer from Mumbai. I work as a Project Associate at YUVA's Climate Justice project. I have been working with communities and grassroots organisations in India. I believe that mapping is a powerful tool that can be used to drive people's demands on development and conservation. I am an avid bird watcher and have interests in learning natural history.
Mergin Maps is a platform built around QGIS desktop application to allow users collect data collaboratively. During the workshops, users will learn how to set up a survey project, design forms, share their project and use the app in the field to easily collect data.
Saber Razmjooei , Lutra Consulting
Saber has been an active member of QGIS community since 2009. In the past, he has been helping organising QGIS developers meeting, triage of QGIS bugs. Recently, he has been helping coordination of large crowdfunding efforts to improve QGIS 3D and point cloud support.
Mergin Maps is a platform developed to bring QGIS capabilities to the field. The platform consists of the following main components: mobile app (also known as Input) which is based on QGIS, Web service: which enables users to collaborate and a QGIS plugin for easy data transfer between desktop and mobile.
Saber Razmjooei , Lutra Consulting
Saber has been an active member of QGIS community since 2009. In the past, he has been helping organising QGIS developers meeting, triage of QGIS bugs. Recently, he has been helping coordination of large crowdfunding efforts to improve QGIS 3D and point cloud support.
Global warming is real and while the world is living through this phenomenon everyday, what happens when the world actually breaches the 1.5°C threshold? We do know how the Arctic region and Europe will be hardest-hit but what about other regions and countries? Through this workshop, by quantifying IPCC’s latest geospatial data, attendees would be able to give a number instead of dealing in abstracts. By incorporating the ‘zonal statistics’ method, anyone can visualize spatial data in matter of seconds and give more context to it like when the world breaches the 1.5°C bar, your country would be warming at? India would be warming at 1.2°C.
Air pollution continues to be the number one environmental health problem in the EU. Airport and all associated aircraft activities are sources of an assortment of gaseous and particulate emissions. However, aviation is not the only, and quite often not even the major contributor to local air pollution. Developed as a plug-in to QGIS, Eurocontrol's Airport Local Air Quality Studies (Open-ALAQS) modelling tool can estimate emissions from aircraft operation and various airport and non-airport emission sources, such as road traffic and industrial facilities, that are known to contribute to the degradation of local air-quality.
Stavros Stromatas , Eurocontrol
Dr Stavros Stromatas is an air-quality research scientist with a special interest in aviation’s environmental footprint. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the French Ecole Polytechnique (X), and a Master’s degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris VI). For his PhD, he worked at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD). He has been substantially involved in the development of EUROCONTROL’s Open-ALAQS, an emissions inventory generation tool for performing Airport Local Air Quality (ALAQS) studies.
Both Discover QGIS 3.x and QGIS for Hydrological Applications were updated in 2022. Combined these represent more than 600 pages of updated and current QGIS educational material. Both books have important updates, as both QGIS and supporting libraries have undergone large changes in the 3 years since the 1st editions were published. The talk highlights the content and important updates to each book. This includes exercise examples from each. The author will also discuss the intended audiences and education paradigms. Hard copy books will be available for attendees to browse.
Kurt Menke , Septima
In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima in Copenhagen. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. He is an early adopter of QGIS having first downloaded it in 2005. In 2022 he published his eighth and ninth books on QGIS: Discover QGIS 3.x - Second Edition and QGIS for Hydrological Applications - Second Edition, both with Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.
QGIS can be used in conjunction with the QGIS plugin for Mergin Maps and the Mergin Maps Input app for field data collection. Mergin Maps is a collaborative space allowing you to store and synchronise projects across multiple mobile and desktop clients. The QGIS plugin for Mergin Maps is used to sync your project between your computer, your Mergin Maps cloud account and your mobile device. The Mergin Maps Input app is used to collect data with a smart phone or tablet. Collectively, these tools create a very robust and affordable data collection set up.
In this workshop, you will learn how to set up a QGIS project which provides the most flexibility with data collection. You will then utilize the Mergin Maps to synchronize your data between desktop & mobile and collect data. If you want to get up and running with Mergin Maps this is the workshop for you!
Saber Razmjooei , Lutra Consulting
Saber has been an active member of QGIS community since 2009. In the past, he has been helping organising QGIS developers meeting, triage of QGIS bugs. Recently, he has been helping coordination of large crowdfunding efforts to improve QGIS 3D and point cloud support.
Kurt Menke , Septima
In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima in Copenhagen. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. He is an early adopter of QGIS having first downloaded it in 2005. In 2022 he published his eighth and ninth books on QGIS: Discover QGIS 3.x - Second Edition and QGIS for Hydrological Applications - Second Edition, both with Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.
The SensorThings API plugin for QGIS has been developed by Deda Next (https://www.dedanext.it/) within the AIR-BREAK project (co-funded by UIA program, https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/uia-cities/ferrara).
The plugin enables QGIS software to access dynamic data from sensors, using the OGC SensorThings API standard protocol (https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorthings)
The overall objective is to provide functionalities for accessing SensorThings API endpoints and interact with temporal data (timeseries).
During the presentation, a live demo will be showcased, accessing public endpoints already available with dynamic data about air quality (from EEA), water (BRGM), bicycle counters, traffic, etc.
Piergiorgio Cipriano , Deda Next (project manager)
GIS/SDI analyst since 1998, in Deda since 2005; in 2012-2013 I have joined the JRC of European Commission, on INSPIRE-related projects.
Passionate about maps, cartograms and storymaps, with focus on city-level data about air quality, energy performance of buildings, sustainable mobility.
Years ago, member of ISO/TC211 and CEN/TC287 working groups on standards for geographic information and services.
Now working on innovation projects related to data space, climate change, green deal (Horizon Europe, H2020, ETI Climate-KIC, ...).
Spatial analysis in a GIS environment is an integrative tool to explore the geographical variation of data. The analysis and representation of this method can be done using various operational methods like inverse distance weight (IDW), and triangular irregular network (TIN) as such. The presentation aims to explain the basic theory of the interpolation model-building approach helping to represent the methods of data analysis using the IDW method in QGIS Desktop 3.16.4. The presentation is about the import of the shapefile layer containing spatial information, joining the attribute with the vector layer, performing interpolation analysis, and intensively interpreting the results. The presentation helps to accumulate basic to intermediate knowledge and practice the above-mention method in QGIS.
Tanmoy Basu , Katwa College, The University of Burdwan
Tanmoy Basu, the presenter is an Indian resident who completed his Masters in Science in Geography 2016 and qualified National Eligibility Test in the year 2017 with awarding Junior Research Fellowship letter. He has been engaging as a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Katwa College, West Bengal, 713130 in India from 2017 to the present. His research interest revolves around agricultural geography, geospatial techniques, statistical applications in geographical research, socio-economic development, sustainability analyses, and disaster management. He was awarded the 1st rank holder certificate in post-graduation from the University of Kalyani, India in 2017 and full travel, accommodation, and registration grant in the 1st IGU-AGLE conference at Yulin, China in the same year. The author is also continuing activities in research and learning including Ph.D. coursework (2018-19, 2019-20) till the present.
In this workshop you´ll learn to delineate streams and catchments from a digital elevation model using the PCRaster Tools plugin in QGIS. First, the concepts of stream and catchment delineation are introduced. Next, the participants will install the plugin on their laptops and work through the steps. At the end of the workshop more advanced applications of QGIS for hydrology are presented.
Hans van der Kwast , IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Hans van der Kwast is Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Hans holds a PhD in Physical Geography. Since 2012 he has worked at IHE Delft, the largest international graduate education institute in the field of water. In his teaching and capacity-development projects he actively promotes the use of open source tools and open data by young professionals from the water sector in the Global South. Through the GIS OpenCourseWare platform and his popular YouTube channel he shares free tutorials. He is a board member of the Dutch QGIS Users Association, OSGeo Charter Member and has his own consultancy QWAST-GIS. He co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.
Property data management is an essential aspect of property development and management. It involves collecting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data related to properties. PostGIS and PostgreSQL are popular open-source relational database management systems that offer robust spatial data management capabilities. QGIS and QField are open-source geographic information systems that provide powerful tools for data collection, visualization and analysis. This presentation combines, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, QGIS, and QField offering a comprehensive solution for managing property data. This integration allows users to create and manage a centralized database, perform spatial queries and analysis, and visualize and share results. This presentation reveals the benefits and applications of this integrated approach to property data management.
Victor Iko-ojo Idakwo , University of maiduguri, Graduate Assistant
Mr. Victor Ikojo Idakwo is a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Maiduguri. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in urban and Regional Planning, specializing in Geographic Information Systems, at Modibbo Adama University Yola and Urban and Regional Planning-Planning Information Technology, at Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nigeria. With over five years of experience in GIS and urban planning, he has a deep understanding of how to use spatial data to address urban planning challenges.
Mr. Idakwo has played key roles in various GIS and urban planning projects. He served as a GIS Expert and Data Collection Coordinator for the Taraba Geographic Information System and was responsible for providing technical support in data collection, management, and analysis. He also served as a Project Manager at the SFTAS IMO State Program Unit, where he oversaw the implementation of the Subnational Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) program.
With his expertise in GIS and urban planning, Mr. Idakwo has been able to contribute to various research works and publications. He is committed to using his knowledge and experience to support sustainable urban development in Nigeria and beyond.
As a present to the Dutch National Tree Day organisation (Boomfeestdag) we have provided an infographic on the greenness and liveability for every primary and secondary school in The Netherlands. Obviously things need to be automated once you create an infographic for 9000 schools. In this presentation we explain how we went about setting up such an infographic production street in QGIS.
Finding small-scale sport spots in sub urban areas with the graphic modelation feature using diffrent buffers, attribute table calculations and vector overlay features. The goal of this search is to find/identify spots which are possible places to creat small-scale sport offer especially for teenagers and young adults in an reasonable distance for both: a good reachability but also far away enough to avoid noise pollution for the residential areas.
Philipp Schüller , Gemeinde Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf
B.Sc. Geography
M.Sc. Urban and regional planning
Used to work in a company specialized in sport-oriented urban planing, now working in the public sector in the field of urban planing. In all those stations worked with QGIS, more or less self-taught
QRcat is a QGIS and PostGIS based application to simulate effects of chemical accidents, such as fire, explosions or toxic clouds. It collaborates with Online-Risk, an application for the documentation and management of companies using and handling chemical hazardous substances. QRcat calculates affected areas with concentric buffers, based on parameters, such as substances, accident types, heat, mass/volume of the substances involved. The affected area is overlayed with population layers, representing residential population and employees. Risk factors and an estimated number of fatalities due to the simulated accident, as well as the most unfavourable toxic sectors are calculated. Some techniques for interactive QGIS forms, integration of SQL analysis and data sheets based on QGIS atlas are presented in this case study.
In the workshop, the 2D and 3D visualisation possibilities in QGIS 3.28 regarding terrain models, building and cave models and LiDAR point clouds will be shown, as well as the new interactive profile tool. The visualisation, filter and measurement functions will be practised on the basis of sample data.
En el presente trabajo se expone el proceso metodológico para calcular el balance hídrico promedio mensual para una cuenca hidrográfica localizada en los Paramos de Motatan y se extiende hacia el estado Trujillo, el objetivo fue evaluar la importancia de la dinámica hídrica. El procedimiento utiliza herramientas SIG-Qgis para elaborar el balance hídrico superficial de acuerdo a la metodología clásica de Thornthwaite y aplicando el álgebra de mapas a superficies continuas, los productos intermedios y finales de este ejercicio de simulación son capas ráster o matrices espacio-temporales que representan la condición hídrica promedio a escala temporal (mensual) y espacial (píxel) en la cuenca de estudio.
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData
Ing. Agrónomo con experiencia y formación en proyectos ambientales, agronómicos, hidrológicos, hidráulicos, agroindustriales, en salud pública, emergencia humanitaria y sanitaria, bajo ambiente GIS-POWER BI y modelado de datos espaciales.
In this workshop you will learn about QGIS Server: working with it; plugins; using it in production; apps that use it etc.
Tudor Bărăscu , QCooperative
Tudor is a mechanical engineer and a QGIS contributor. He has extensive experience in QGIS deployments (Desktop, Server, Web, data models) for public utilities companies. Also a QGIS trainer, he loves teaching and promoting QGIS all over the world. He is also a OSGeo charter member, member of the romanian OSGeo local chapter and of the local QGIS organisation.
On the present time, researcher's and academics as well as policy makers focused at artificial intelligence and innovation technology which Quantum technology has majored interested such QGIS, remote sensing and ArcGIS pro. I am interested in Geoinformatics that helped me on my projects.
MOHAMMED ALI HUMRAN , TUOAA, Mr
Moahmmed Ali Ahmed Humran, Yemen and I’m Geopolitical and Strategic planning. Currently, President The Union of Arab Academics .I’m is interested in geopolitics , international relations , researches, development and innovations .I graduated from Sana’a University and US naval war college , so gained Master degree in Geography , Diploma in Diplomacy and international Relation , 2 bachelor's degree in geography a and maritime science from Yemen , as well as he gained Diploma from US naval war college in 2011, beside that he has diploma at English language from DLI , US . I founded and established The Union of Arab Academics in 8, January 2018 that is full member of International Federation innovations Associations. His ideas that communicate and unify efforts with academics, researches, specifics, experts to unify efforts innovations, researches is the best way to build and achieve a modern Arab strategy. I have conducted partnership with 35 local, regional international organization hat interested in researches, innovations, journal, universities, development and training centers around the world and have been participation on many regional, international conferences and shows, conducted many researches and innovations, so he gained many local and international awards such as International Leadership award at Management and innovations from UK in 2019. I have been working on international committee of innovations and researches as well as he is member of IGU, Yemen Geography Society. He is member editorial chairman of African and Arab journal for strategic study, and he is member of editorial chairman of Patent Magazine.
Satellite missions like EnMAP (Chabrillat, 2022) and PRISMA (Cogliati et al., 2021) observe the Earth surface with hyperspectral resolution. The provided imaging spectroscopy data is highly valuable for biophysical, agricultural, geological hydrological applications. This presentation gives an overview on the typical characteristics of such imaging spectroscopy raster data, where to get it for free, and what makes it different to data from satellites like Landsat and Sentinel-2. We show typical problems that QGIS users and developers are confronted with when using imaging spectroscopy data, and how these problems can be solved exemplary using the EnMAP-Box plugin (Janz et al., 2023). Finally, we discuss conceptional ideas how QGIS could be enhanced to better exploit the spectral dimension in multi-, super- and hyperspectral raster data.
References:
Chabrillat, S.I., 2022. The German environmental hyperspectral satellite EnMAP: mission update and related science activities, in: Babu, S.R., Hélière, A., Kimura, T. (Eds.), Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXVI. SPIE, p. PC1226401. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654918
Cogliati, S., Sarti, F., Chiarantini, L., Cosi, M., Lorusso, R., Lopinto, E., Miglietta, F., Genesio, L., Guanter, L., Damm, A., Pérez-López, S., Scheffler, D., Tagliabue, G., Panigada, C., Rascher, U., Dowling, T.P.F., Giardino, C., Colombo, R., 2021. The PRISMA imaging spectroscopy mission: overview and first performance analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment 262, 112499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112499
Janz, A., Jakimow, B., Thiel, F., Van der Linden, S., Dierkes, H., 2023. EnMAP-Box 3 - Imaging Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing for QGIS. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/enmapboxplugin/
Benjamin Jakimow , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Geographer with background in computer and agricultural sciences, specialized in remote sensing.
Researcher in the Earth Observation Lab of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
PhD Geography, 2022
Developer of QGIS plugins (https://plugins.qgis.org/search/?q=jakimowb), e.g. the
EnMAP-Box, a plugin to visualize, analyse and process imaging spectroscopy data and other remote sensing imagery.
Started using QGIS in 2014, because ArcGIS failed to connect with a GPS mouse.
QGIS helped him a lot to navigate through the Brazilian Amazon first, and later on his PhD thesis ("Landsat and Sentinel-2 based analysis of land use in the Brazilian Amazon: The agricultural frontier of Novo Progresso").
QGIS Server is a very effective tool to publish QGIS maps online. The strengths of QGIS Server will be highlighted as well as a step by step demonstration of the process of publishing maps with QGIS Server and a mapviewer (GeoNovation's KaartViewer).
An area of 350km2 and a wall 55km long. Old maps and descriptions from 1468. An old and wrong transcription from 1928. Lidar pictures and geological information. Pictures with GPS information from excursions and GPS data in a logger. 100 old maps not georeferenced and not north. Contour lines to find ditches. And QGIS as an integrator. In other words: There is no way than QGIS for a full information integration.
The study aims to investigate the use of FAO WaPOR data and QGIS for monitoring crop water productivity in the Mitidja plain, Algeria. As the agricultural sector is the largest water user globally, there is increasing competition for water resources exacerbated by the impact of climate change. The study aims to identify opportunities to enhance water use efficiency by monitoring spatial and temporal trends in crop water productivity. The research methodology involves the collection of hydrogeological and hydrogeophysical data, analysis of climatic data, and utilizing remote sensing technologies to estimate crop water productivity. The outcomes of the study are expected to provide recommendations for promoting sustainable water management practices and enhancing agricultural productivity in the Mitidja plain and beyond.
Zoubida NEMER , PhD student in Geophysics at the University of sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene Algeria.
Zoubida Nemer is a PhD student in Geophysics at the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria. Her research focuses on hydrogeophysical studies and environmental issues, with a particular interest in developing sustainable water management strategies. As an active environmentalist, Zoubida is committed to engaging with communities to ensure a sustainable future for our planet. She is particularly fond of open-access tools and software, and strongly believes that science can make a positive impact on the world. Through her research and advocacy work, Zoubida hopes to contribute to building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.
PCRaster is a powerful package of software for map algebra and environmental dynamic modelling. The main applications of PCRaster are found in environmental modelling. In the PCRaster package a rich suite of geomorphological and hydrological functions is available. These include functions for visibility analysis, catchment analysis and routing of transport (drainage) of material in a catchment using interactively generated local drain direction maps and transport (routing) operations. These operations are made available in the QGIS Processing Toolbox through the PCRaster Tools plugin. This presentation will show applications, the current state of the plugin and the plans for the future.
Hans van der Kwast , IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Hans van der Kwast is Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Hans holds a PhD in Physical Geography. Since 2012 he has worked at IHE Delft, the largest international graduate education institute in the field of water. In his teaching and capacity-development projects he actively promotes the use of open source tools and open data by young professionals from the water sector in the Global South. Through the GIS OpenCourseWare platform and his popular YouTube channel he shares free tutorials. He is a board member of the Dutch QGIS Users Association, OSGeo Charter Member and has his own consultancy QWAST-GIS. He co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.
A new plugin "Räumlicher Filter" allows to spatially filter the layers of a QGIS project quickly and dynamically to specific spatial regions. This can dramatically enhance user experience as it not only speeds up data access (only data of the region(s) has to be fetched from the data source) but also makes spatially constrained analysis or exports a walk in the park.
The plugin currently supports PostGIS, GeoPackage and Spatialite layers and has features like:
- Existing (e.g. municipalities) or manually drawn geometries can be used as filter regions
- Filters can be named and stored for easy re-use
- The geometric predicate can be selected (currently „intersects“, „within“ or „disjoint“)
- Layers can be excluded from filtering
https://github.com/WhereGroup/spatial_filter
Publishing your map to web services such as GeoServer or MapServer takes quite a bit of effort. At least, without the plug-in GeoCat Bridge for QGIS.
With Bridge, you no longer have to upload each layer and style separately; instead, you can publish the data, style and metadata all at once. In addition, the StyleViewer translates the style to SLD, MapServer, MapBox or GeoStyler format.
We will show you the difference between publishing with or without Bridge and how to publish multiple styled map layers at once to GeoServer or MapServer, while at the same time the metadata will be published to a GeoNetwork portal.
Jonna Bosch , GeoCat - Title: Training & Consultancy
Since the beginning of this year I am working at GeoCat as trainer/consultant for publishing (meta)data and maps to GeoNetwork and GeoServer. For more than 17 years I am a trainer and analyst in for instance QGIS, cartography, Postgis, datamodelling. Basically: everything with maps.
I love (making) maps and working with geodata and I am always looking for special, new, or user-friendly perspectives. I like to share my experience, for example by participating in De Grote Geo Show (tv.osgeo.nl), writing about maps or helping around at a conference or maptime.
My main hobbies are music and graphic design. I play guitar and go to concerts, Roadburn festival. I like to drink a (local) special beer with friends or while enjoying a concert, movie or a (comic) book.
Last year Geon celebrated its 30-year anniversary. We wanted to showcase our clients of the last 30 years in a video. What better way to do this than with QGIS? In this workshop, we will show you how to make a video with impressive visualisations, using QGIS’s geometry generator and time animation capabilities to its fullest extent.
Derek van Bochove & Quinten Dengerink , consultants at Geon bv
We are consultants at Geon bv, a geo-information consultancy based in Groningen, the Netherlands. We help our clients get the best out of geo! We support them with consultancy, training, project management and data management.
3Di Water Management uses QGIS as a platform for its expert user interface: the 3Di Modeller Interface. In this presentation we share how we leverage the power of QGIS and its Python API to let users perform all their tasks: from creating, editing and uploading model schematisations to running simulations in the cloud, and downloading and analysing results. We will elaborate on the technical setup of the 3Di Modeller Interface: a set of custom-built plugins, third-party plugins, and predefined UI settings bundled in a single installer. We will shed light on the advantages of using QGIS for this purpose, the challenges in deploying this product with clients, and the various ways in which we contribute to the open source projects that we benefit from.
Leendert van Wolfswinkel , Product Owner 3Di Modeller Interface, Nelen & Schuurmans
I am a Dutch GIS specialist in the field of water management, urban drainage and hydrodynamic modelling. I am fascinated by the challenge of translating complex topics and datasets to understandable information for clients. And in developing tooling that enabled other to do this. I graduated from Wageningen University in 2010 (Msc. International Land and Water Management) and have worked in GIS and water management in academia, government and consulting. In the past six years I worked at Nelen & Schuurmans, as water management consultant and product owner for the 3Di Modeller Interface.
Pedometrics and Digital Soil Mapping are two important areas of research in soil science that have been gaining increasing attention in recent years. While QGIS is a popular open-source GIS software that is often used in soil analysis and mapping, R language is a powerful statistical programming language that offers a wide range of tools for data analysis and visualization.
The integration of QGIS with R language provides soil scientists with a powerful toolset for soil analysis and mapping. R can be used to process, analyze, and visualize soil data, and the results can be integrated into QGIS for mapping and visualization. In this way, R can enhance the capabilities of QGIS and provide more advanced analysis and modeling capabilities.
This presentation presents an overview of the combination of Pedometrics, Digital Soil Mapping, QGIS, and R language for soil analysis and mapping. It discusses the various techniques and tools available in R for soil analysis, as well as how R can be integrated with QGIS for advanced mapping and visualization. The paper also provides some case studies where this combination of tools has been used to map and analyze soil properties. Overall, the integration of QGIS with R language offers great potential for advancing soil science research and applications.
Dimitrios Kopanelis , Agricultural University of Athens - BSc/ Intergrated Master in Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering
Dimitrios Kopanelis is a highly accomplished and knowledgeable graduate of Agricultural University of Athens, with a specialization in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. Graduating in 2022 with an excellent overall GPA, I have demonstrated an exceptional ability to comprehend and apply knowledge in the field of agricultural science. As a student, i also pursued an academic minor in Coastal Development and Sustainable Maritime Tourism through the EU-CONEXUS program. The program helped me gain additional knowledge on Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing, Ecological Psychology, Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Areas, Sustainable built environment, and Natural hazards in coastal regions.
The EnMAP-Box (Janz et al., 2023) is a Python based QGIS plugin that greatly enhances the support for freely available Earth observation data. It directly supports, widely used, multispectral Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel-2 imagery, as well as the more recently introduced hyperspectral imagery from the EnMAP, DESIS and PRISMA satellite missions.
With the introduction of spectral band properties, we allow the (user-friendly) visual exploration, analysis and harmonization of imagery from different optical sensors at the same time. The simplest form of a spectral band property would be the center wavelength, e.g. Near Infrared band at around 830 nm. A proper center wavelength annotation allows for the selection of prominent RGB band combinations like colored infrared, the proper visualization of spectral pixel profiles, the derivation of spectral indices and spectral resampling from one sensor characteristic into another.
References
Janz, A., Jakimow, B., Thiel, F., Dierkes, H., van der Linden, S., 2023. EnMAP-Box 3 - Imaging Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing for QGIS [WWW Document]. URL https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/enmapboxplugin/
Andreas Janz , Humboldt-University zu Berlin
I was educated at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin as an computer scientist with a strong background in remote sensing, geoinformatics and maschine learning.
I fully support open science, free and open-source software, and published several QGIS plugins throughout the last years:
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/user/janzandr/admin
I am a full time software developer at Humboldt-University with a strong focus on QGIS Plugin development.
Point clouds are an increasingly popular data type thanks to the decreasing cost of their acquisition through lidar surveys and photogrammetry. On top of that, more and more national mapping agencies release high resolution point cloud data (spanning large areas and consisting of billions of points), unlocking many new use cases.
This talk will summarize where we are in terms of support for point cloud data in QGIS since their introduction two years ago in the 3.18 release and what landed in QGIS since then. In addition to that, we will have a look at the upcoming addition of tools for point cloud analysis right from QGIS Processing toolbox: clip, filter, merge, export to raster, extract boundaries and more - all backed by PDAL library that already ships with QGIS, without having to rely on third party proprietary software.
The Mergin Maps project comes with a promise to make field data collection with QGIS easy,
but it offers more than just a mobile app for fieldwork. In this talk, we will look
at further GIS use cases beyond simple data collection and sync - some of them not involving
the use of a mobile app at all.
Among the topics this session will cover:
- data synchronization with a PostGIS database
- splitting data into work packages for multiple teams
- publishing web maps
- moving pictures to a cloud storage
- hosting your own Mergin Maps server
- using Python API.
Basic understanding of Mergin Maps is recommended for this talk.
Improving and extending the handling and representation of 3D data has been in our scope at Lutra Consulting ltd. In this talk we will be presenting the latest features related to 3D data that have been introduced in QGIS during the last year as a result of two successful crowdfunding campaigns, as well as what is planned to be included in the upcoming 3.32 release.
These features include but are not limited to:
- the profile tool for detailed inspection of elevation data
- new 2D/3D visualization options for data
- great improvements to the usability of 3D map views
Stefanos Natsis , Lutra Consulting ltd, software developer
Studied survey engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. My love for QGIS and open source drove me from gis power user to QGIS core developer. I now work as a software developer for Lutra Consulting ltd, squashing bugs and bringing new features to the best gis platform out there.
This study aims to develop a conceptual framework to assess and quantify equity using open access remote sensing hydrological data and QGIS for transboundary water resources of the Nile basin. Transboundary water management is a complex issue that requires a multi-faceted approach to ensure equitable distribution of water resources. The shortage of materials and methods to assess equity to help riparian countries establish operational arrangements for transboundary water management made it difficult to understand the demand and use of water in the basin, and thus created conflicts. By analysing satellite imagery and other data sources, QGIS can help to identify areas where water resources are scarce and where demand for water may be exceeding supply. The results of this study can be used to develop policies and promote cooperation and more equitable water management practices.
Suzan Dehati , IHE Delft institute for water education
Suzan Dehati is an Afghan student currently pursuing her Master's degree in Water Management and Governance from IHE Delft and holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Kabul University. Her Master's thesis focuses on equity assessment for transboundary water resources management using remote sensing data and QGIS.
She has participated in various extracurricular activities during her studies, including volunteering with local and international NGOs and participating in environmental awareness campaigns. She is passionate about using her knowledge and skills to make a positive difference in the community and is committed to pursuing a career in the water sector with a focus on promoting cooperation and ensuring equitable access to water resource.
Additionally, she expresses her heartfelt gratitude for the financial support she received from QGISHydro Book Fund, which enabled her to attend the QGIS conference and expand her knowledge and skills in the field of water management, and to network with professionals and experts from all around the world.
Learn to create your own fantasy style map using QGIS. We will generate data in Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator and create all of the mystical styles and markers together to create something magical.
Thiasha Vythilingam , Kartoza
My name is Thiasha Vythilingam, I am 26 years old and am from Johannesburg, South Africa. I work at Kartoza as a junior GIS specialist and have a BSc in Geography from the University of Pretoria. I am passionate about all things cartography and the the wondrous possibilities that it brings.
A short presentation on how to create a plugin from scratch using existing QGIS plugins. Includes use of an existing plugin to generate templates, and how to edit a plugin using Qt designer
Divan Divan , Kartoza
Studied at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where I did my bachelours, honours and masters degrees in Geo-informatics. Been making use of Python to perform data analytics, and creating plugins for QGIS. Used to work at Stellenbosch University, and have been working at Kartoza for about 2 years.
The mobile application QField allows fieldwork to be carried out efficiently based on QGIS projects, offline or online. Developments in recent months have added additional functions to the application that are useful for fieldwork. Examples are used to present the most important new features. Discover features like 3D-layers handling, printing of reports and atlases, elevation profiling of terrain and layers, multi-column support in feature form, azimuth values in the measuring tool, locked screen mode, the QR-code reader, stakeout functionalities, the official release of the iOS version and many more.
Matthias Kuhn , OPENGIS.ch
My interest for software development started as soon as I had access to a computer. I decided to make from a hobby a job and studied programming. At the same time I started to use open source wherever possible, out of interest for the code as well as a fascination by the idea to collaborate and share.
Because the world is not just bits and bytes and because investigating cultural as well as physical questions gives a lot of insights, studying Geography was just what I was looking for and combined with a minor in cartography offered even a creative part.
All this time I continued to work in various IT and communication related jobs where I had the chance to complete my full stack ninja abilities in projects form embedded system to server environments.
One day I heard about QGIS and it wasn't hard to realize that this was just the perfect combination of all my interest and skills: spatial problems, information technology and open source.
After a couple of freelance projects I ended up founding OPENGIS.ch together with Marco Bernasocchi.
I strive to enable everyone to use powerful, high quality tools for understanding the world with QGIS in the office and QField on the go.
QFieldCloud enables the synchronisation and consolidation of field data collected by teams using QField. From small individual projects to large data collection campaigns, the platform allows you to manage the collaboration of multiple people on the same project, assign different roles and rights to different users, work online and offline, and keep track of changes made. Already during the beta phase, over 40,000 registered users synchronised their projects via the platform. Beginning of 2023, the official version was released. A brief overview of how QFieldCloud works and how the platform is built is given.
Marco Bernasocchi , OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.
QGIS turned 20 years old last year. The first lines of code were written in mid-February 2002 and when the programme was first compiled and run, it could do exactly one thing:
Connect to a PostGIS database and draw a vector layer.
Nowadays, QGIS is the go-to GIS solution for millions of users, and to make sure that QGIS's future is as bright as its past, we did a lot of work on communication, strategy and outreach.
In this talk, I’ll overview all the work done and the future of QGIS.
Marco Bernasocchi , OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.
QField is the field data collection app for QGIS with more than 175K active users and well over 650K downloads. QFieldCloud is the sync platform for QField and QGIS released in early 2023.
In this workshop we will go through the complete fieldwork process: setting up your QGIS project, publishing the project via QFieldCloud, collecting data via the QField mobile app and synchronising the field data back to your main dataset in the office.
QField works on top of QGIS and allows users to set up maps and forms in QGIS on their workstation and deploy them in the field. QField uses QGIS's data providers - OGR, GDAL, PostGIS and others - and supports most common file formats.
QField combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology that allows intuitive viewing and editing of data. QField's map rendering is supported by the QGIS rendering engine, so the results are identical and the full range of styling options available on the desktop is available. Editing forms in QField respect the QGIS configuration and are optimised for touch interaction.
QFieldCloud will also make field collaboration much easier. We will learn about configuring users with different rights, offline and online data collection, and synchronisation of field data and QGIS project data.
Marco Bernasocchi , OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.
The creation of animated maps using the QAW (QGIS Animation Workbench) and the built-in QGIS functions editor.
QGIS is an essential tool in the collection, processing, and visualization of field data in the environmental remediation industry. This customizable GIS software, allows Sevenson Environmental Services the ability to collect, process, and visualize surface gamma scans (SGS) to further our daily operations at FUSRAP Superfund Sites across the United States.
Sevenson Environmental Services is currently collaborating with OPENGIS.ch to develop and implement a feature which would allow for QGIS/QField to collect data from an external radiation detector (Ludlum 2221), process the data (calculate statistics such as average, minimum, maximum, standard deviation), and visualize data in real-time to keep our radiological control technician (Rad Techs) safe and provide instant data for sample collection, maximizing our workflow.
Nathan Smail , Sevenson Environmental Services, GIS Specialist
I graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Geology and German Language, and due to COVID decided to get my MS in Geology and Earth Science at the University of Iceland studying Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Events using remote sensing techniques. This is where I first made the switch from ArcGIS to QGIS and became obsessed with the software and it's capabilities. After graduating, I began working at Sevenson Environmental Services in New Jersey at a DuPont plant where they developed chemicals for the Manhattan Project, burying radioactive materials in the ground. Now we work to present data on the cleanup and remediation of this contamination.
Raise your hand if you ever struggled to transfer data between QGIS and Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper etc. Now imagine it can all be done in just one click! Speckle is an open-source platform that allows exchanging data and models between urban design, architecture and engineering software and enables collaboration and automation. In this presentation, we will share some simple workflows you can follow with our QGIS plugin to unlock the power of your GIS data.
Kateryna Konieva , Speckle Systems
Urban planner, computational designer with occasional teaching and moderation activities. Art will save the world, and I do my part through photography. Past @ Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre.
Speckle is open source digital infrastructure for anything designed in 3D. We handle interoperability between software silos, real time collaboration, data management, versioning and automation.
Since the last contributors meeting, a subset of the QGIS community has been working on creating a new, professional and exciting official QGIS website. The new website aims to present QGIS as a mature, professional and reliable project for everyone. Further, the website should be more user-friendly, attractive and easy to navigate. There are three top designs to review and choose from. We want to showcase these options and get community feedback to use the best option available.
Seabilwe Tilodi , Kartoza and Miss
Seabilwe has an MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has an Honours degree in Geography and a BSc in Geological Science, both from the University of the Witwatersrand. Seabilwe is a Junior GIS specialist at Kartoza, passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems in the area of agroclimatology. And also explore various open-source software which can be used to map factors affecting crops on arable land. Her geological background made her wonder what tool can be used to make field data collection precise, effective and simple. After joining Kartoza, she discovered great mobile field data capture applications that have revolutionised how data is collected, analysed and viewed in the field, and cannot wait to explore more. Spreading knowledge is the main mandate. She enjoys training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. The teaching of practical GIS at the secondary level has helped her to realise that more sustainable methods of teaching GIS need to be implemented in all sectors of the educational sphere. She has taken up photography as her hobby, mostly taking shots of flowers. She enjoys baking, listening to music and watching animé or cartoons with her little sister.
We are a urban planning consultance firm (Generation.energy / PosadMaxwan). At our office we work in project teams on projects that have almost always an important GIS component. We work from different locations and need to have an environment so that we can work together on GIS projects. This is achieved with a QGIS desktop - Postgresql setup where we store data, styles and projects in the database.
The Geospatial Data Science Certificate started in March 2022 as a pilot project aimed at introducing the practical components of GIS. In South Africa, GIS in the classroom is textbook-based, and learners do not get to explore the various GIS packages available. The GDSC’s vision is to expose the learners to the GIS packages they can use in the classroom. The material given to learners combines topics learnt in the classroom and how they can map and visualise the topic in QGIS. In 2022, the project was divided into two parts, Part A, which is the training and instruction component of the certificate task; and Part B which is the group and research component of the certificate task.
Seabilwe Tilodi , Kartoza and Miss
Seabilwe has an MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has an Honours degree in Geography and a BSc in Geological Science, both from the University of the Witwatersrand. Seabilwe is a Junior GIS specialist at Kartoza, passionate about the application of open-source software and open data to solve complex problems in the area of agroclimatology. And also explore various open-source software which can be used to map factors affecting crops on arable land. Her geological background made her wonder what tool can be used to make field data collection precise, effective and simple. After joining Kartoza, she discovered great mobile field data capture applications that have revolutionised how data is collected, analysed and viewed in the field, and cannot wait to explore more. Spreading knowledge is the main mandate. She enjoys training on open-source software such as QGIS, in particular for high school students and teachers. The teaching of practical GIS at the secondary level has helped her to realise that more sustainable methods of teaching GIS need to be implemented in all sectors of the educational sphere. She has taken up photography as her hobby, mostly taking shots of flowers. She enjoys baking, listening to music and watching animé or cartoons with her little sister.
Together with Provincie Gelderland a number of regional and local governments in the Netherlands have joined forces to enhance the exchange capabilities of the most used geo-databases namely Geopackage and Filegdb in QGIS. The reason for this development is that in order to have an effective assetmanagement process we need to exchange asset information in a project during the pre and post execution phase. We are only interested in the assetdata so we want to take away as many restrictions posed by proprietary formats or unsupported features of an open format.
Bram Corneliszen , Provincie Gelderland
I started using (Q)GIS in 2016 and after following a GIS course I had the chance to set up the GIS team with Van Oord, a international Dredging and Marine Contractor. I am currently working for the Provincie Gelderland as informationmanager and involved in the BIM and GIS developments where we streamline our assetmanagement process.
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Do we need testing Data itself or rather Big Data or rather better Geospatial Big Data during rapid technological changes resulting increasing collecting of geographical information no matter how, everywhere, every time? If data quality is important for us, the answer is yes.
But how to keep high quality of geospatial data and detect potential bugs as quick as possible? The answer is merging two open-sources and powerful software. First is QGIS API which is crucial to reading/writing and operate on geospatial data. Second is PyTest – very popular and easy to implement python testing framework.
The main purpose of the presentation is sharing knowledge how to use above technologies to design testing strategy and test cases, execute tests with high performance and generate test reports with visual representation of defects on map.
Michal Pilarski , Boeing, Software Engineer and GIS analyst
During his career, Michal has been always connected with geospatial data and GIS geoprocessing (over 10 years). He likes to find and overcome challenges in Testing Big Data with geometry attributes. He has experience in preparing the testing strategies for ETL systems that extract, transform and load massive geospatial data. His technology stack is related to Python, Pytest, ArcGIS, ArcPy, QGIS, PyQGIS, FME, Robot Framework, HP ALM, and Geopandas. Speaker of many technical meetups and presenter on international conferences related to software testing.
In the present work, the methodological process to calculate the monthly average water balance for a hydrographic basin located in the Paramos de Motatan and extends to the Trujillo state is exposed, the objective was to evaluate the importance of the water dynamics. The procedure uses GIS tools to develop the surface water balance according to the classic Thornthwaite methodology, which allows calculating the variables of the water system based on the definition of the maximum available water capacity on the ground (CAD), the measurements (average or total) of precipitation and the estimate of potential evapotranspiration following the methodology proposed by Thornthwaite. In the GIS-Qgis environment it was possible to perform the water balance by applying map algebra to continuous surfaces. The intermediate and final products of this simulation exercise are raster layers or spatio-temporal matrices that represent the average water condition at temporal (monthly) and spatial (pixel) scales in the study basin. Based on the results, it is evaluated that the proposed methodology presents satisfactory results and can be applied to other units of analysis of broader scales. Keywords: Water balance, Geospatial data modeling, GIS.
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData Gerente de Programas
Agricultural Engineer M. Cs. in Environmental Sciences, with experience in agronomic, agro-industrial, environmental, hydrological, humanitarian, public health and sanitary projects through GIS environment and spatial data modeling.
This research article includes the review of 35 publications on the various aspects of the applications of geospatial technology in water science, the articles are one of the best investigations in the analysis of the various conflicts over the use of water in the society, the same by virtue of the needs of society in the constant search to value, explore, describe, for purposes of preservation and optimize the management of water supply, reuse and treatment and therefore of water resources to achieve sustainability of access to water and sanitation focusing on the quality, availability and management of freshwater resources, to ensure environmental suitability as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal-7. The volume will serve as a compendium on the applications of geospatial technology in various aspects of vulnerability and social risk due to access to water and the various conflicts generated in most cases by the effect of anthropogenic actions.
Jose Lozano , MappingBigData
Agricultural Engineer with M. Cs. Environmental, and expertise in agronomic, environmental, agro-industrial, hydrological, sanitary, and public health projects, using a GIS environment and spatial data modeling.
The combination of QGIS and PostGIS is an important tool to map and prioritise mobile „Dead Spots“ for potential funding by the German Government. In order to achieve the goal “Where people are, there should be mobile access” there are several working steps and, just as important, stakeholder involvement, which are carried out by the MIG (Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft) in Naumburg (Saale). These steps include the acquisition of mobile coverage forecasts from all four mobile network providers, alignment with existing and obligatory mobile expansion programs and area prioritisation according to number of households, roads, rail, land use, points of interest and other features playing a role in the assessment of potential funding. These are then evaluated by network and site planners and submitted to the network providers for potential interest.
Immo Blecher , Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft, Geodata-Analyst
I am a Geologist by training and have worked in the Groundwater and Mineral Exploration Industry for many years in South Africa and most of Africa south of the equator. My work maily included mapping and evaluation with various GIS programs and databases, including ArcGIS, QGIS, MySQL, Spatialite, PostGIS and others. I have also deveolped a water management software called Aquabase and a few QGIS plugins, one of which is available in the repository. Since May 2022 I am a geodata-analyst at the MIG, where I run the biannual mobile utility analysis for potential funding by the German government.
The application ‘QField’ was found to be the most suitable for the branch’s specific needs, therefore a thorough process was followed to better understand the main functions of the application and how to customize it to fully suit the branch’s data requirements. One of the most crucial steps initially was to identify the specific type of geoscientific data to be collected by the Geologists of the branch during general field programs. Based on these data requirements, data templates were customized within QGIS and later packaged for use in the QField application for any field project. This should ideally make the data collection process more efficient and reduce human error during the data capture.
Celestine Aisa OFOI , Mineral Resources Authority - Cartographer / GIS
Having worked as a Cartographer and GIS specialist for 23 years now.
Graduated with a Diploma in Cartography from the PNG University of Technology.
Il s’agira pour nous de présenter une approche SIG adoptée avec le logiciel QGIS dans le cadre du projet de dématérialisation des anciens plans cadastraux de 1986, de quatre villes du Cameroun. En Afrique, les initiatives pour améliorer la gestion du cadastre souffrent de l’insuffisance de stratégie, de coordination des acteurs et surtout de prévisibilité des moyens mobilisés. La culture papier reste prédominante faute de compréhension suffisante et de maîtrise de l’apport d’une dématérialisation des documents. L’intérêt de notre projet est donc majeur puisqu’il a permis la reconstitution rapide du cadastre sur le plan national en général et dans les villes de forte urbanisation en particulier.
ATANGANA JACQUES LANDRY , SIC - Chargé d'Etudes Assistant
Camerounais âgé de 31ans, Je suis Géomaticien et Ingénieur du Cadastre Assermenté au MINDCAF en détachement à la Société Immobilière du Cameroun où j'occupe le poste de Chargé d’Études Assistant N°1, avec plus de 10ans d’expérience.
Sur le plan académique, je suis titulaire d'un diplôme d’Ingénieur Topographie-Cadastre et d'un Master 2 en Cartographie, SIG et Télédétection, Université de Yaoundé 1.
Je suis également membre de plusieurs organisation professionnel en occurrence : -l'Association OPENSTREETMAP CAMEROUN, en tant Vice-président depuis 2013 et Conférencier du SOTM AFRICA. -l'Ordre des Géomètres Experts du Cameroun, en tant Membre inscrit depuis 2022.
En termes d’expérience professionnel :
- Chargé de projet géomatique à SOGEFI France ;
- Projet de Renforcement de la fiabilité des Mappes Foncières des Services du Cadastre du MINDCAF ;
- Travaux de réalisation des Plans cadastraux numériques, dans les villes de Douala et Yaoundé ;
- Projet Modernisation du cadastre et des domaines : numérisation et indexation des archives du Cadastre, dans le cadre du PAMOCCA MOD1 - FSN ;
- Projet PULCI (Cartographie des zones à risque d’inondations dans la région de l’extrême nord, Cameroun) ;
- Mise en place d’un Géoportail citoyen des Centres d’États Civils au Cameroun ;
- Production de spatio-cartes au 1/100 000e autour de TANANARIVE (MADAGASCAR) ;
- Projet de Création d’un référentiel de réseaux viaire et numérisation des enseignes publicitaires avec le logiciel IMAJVIEW PRO.
- Etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/atangana-jacques-landry-3a971697/
In this discussion panel some yet-to-be-determined QGISsers talk with Sybren A. Stüvel from Blender about the many aspects of working on - and being - a big Open Source project. The goal is to discuss and exchange ideas, not just between the pannelists but also with the audience.
dr. Sybren A. Stüvel , Blender, software developer
Sybren works as Blender developer, where he manage the Animation & Rigging module, and works on Flamenco, the dependency graph, and the integration of various file formats. Apart from his work on Blender, he also develop various other Open Source projects, such as Flatterer (for exporting shapes from Blender to a laser cutter) and Skyfill (for filling up skies in drone panoramas).
Once the realm of expensive commercial software, QGIS is now being used to reapportion political boundaries in different countries, especially for legislative districts. This discussion will demonstrate how the QGIS redistricting tool works and describe how it has been used in practice to redraw American and Australian political districts.
John Holden , Consultant, Statto Consulting
John Holden is an environmental and political consultant and computer programmer. Mr Holden has provided reapportioning advice for several different lawsuits in the United States and has used QGIS in a number of different countries on environmental projects.
The presentation will showcase how QGIS is used in various humanitarian operations by the Red Cross and Red Crescent movements. It will show the use cases in emergencies as well as concrete examples of how it assisted decision-making in complex disasters (such as Ukraine crisis). It will also discuss how QGIS plugins developed by professional volunteers and 510 have simplified and standardised map-making in the humanitarian world, making maps accessible to people who need it the most but do not per se have a GIS background. It will talk about how important it is that it is free and open-source software with a large, supportive community behind it.
Angelina Savchuk , 510, Netherlands Red Cross, Information Manager
(Geo)data Analyst at 510, Netherlands Red Cross. Master degree in Geographical Information Management & Application (GIMA) from Utrecht University. Professional achievement - has made maps for the Red Cross operations during the offset of Ukraine crisis (using QGIS of course!).
The world's largest radio telescope, LOFAR, is based across Europe, with the core in the Northern Netherlands. It is operated by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, in collaboration with other radio astronomy institutes. The telescope consists of about 50.000 antennas, spread over 50 stations (each around 100x150m), placed over various European country. The placement of the antennas must be precise to a few cm to be able to use them for radio interferometric imaging of the sky. The scale of this telescope, together with the strict accuracy requirements, make this telescope an interesting use case for GIS. I will show examples of the usage of QGIS in the processes of site selection, validation of antenna locations, as well as near-field imaging to find sources of radio interference.
Tammo Jan Dijkema , ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Scientific Software Engineer at ASTRON, with a PhD in Mathematics / Numerical Analysis. At ASTRON, my work consists of many aspects of the LOFAR radio telescope, ranging from geodesy for site selection to calibration (in C++ and Python) of the generated data.
In this presentation from Women+ in Geospatial (W+G), we will cover practical aspects of how to be a workplace ally. W+G is an inclusive global community inspiring, uniting and empowering all women+ in the geospatial sector to become strong leaders and changemakers. We will learn together about definitions of allyship, why it is important and how to support women+ in the geospatial sector. Women+ at all levels need your support to succeed and do well in the workplace. Looking to hire a more diverse team and improve your bottom line? We want you in the room. Join us.
Caroline Robinson , Unite Lead, Executive Board Member, Women+ in Geospatial
Caroline is Founder and Lead Cartographer at Clear Mapping Co. She has been in defence, government, transport, energy, planning and environment, advocating for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) in the geospatial sector.Caroline is a Journalist for Maplines, the membership magazine, for the British Cartographic Society. She is a member and Middle Manager with the Chartered Management Institute. Caroline is a Fellow and Chartered Geographer with the Royal Geographical Society. She has a keen interest in sustainability, resilience and supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We’re drowning in data, but the geospatial world lags badly behind in versioning tools compared to our software counterparts. Kart (https://kartproject.org) is solving this with a practical open tool for versioning datasets, enabling you to work more efficiently and collaborate better. We will introduce you to Kart and demonstrate some of the key features, including our QGIS plugin. Kart allows you to quickly and easily manage history, branches, data schemas, and synchronisation for large & small datasets between different working copy formats, operating systems, and software ecosystems. Modern version control unlocks efficient collaboration, both within teams and across organisations meaning everyone stays on the same page, you can review and trace changes easily: ultimately using your time more efficiently.
The Participatory Infrastructure Project (PIP) is a development measure implemented by the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Egypt. The objective of the PIP is to contribute to the socio-economic development in the informal areas of the Greater Cairo Region. GFA is contributing to the digitalization component of the project, by developing a GIS for the identification and mapping of Urban Upgrading Areas (UUAs). Services include the definition of suitable indicators and measuring techniques for the UUAs identification criteria and the development of the system. Furthermore, GFA provides expertise and advise on the existing data infrastructure, efficient data management and assists in data acquisition. Capacity development of the technical staff is in the centre of the assignment.
Berit Mohr , GFA Consulting Group GmbH, GIS Consultant
Berit is a GIS Consultant within the Digital Innovation Unit at the GFA Consulting Group GmbH in Hamburg. GFA is a company working in the development cooperation sector. Donors are typically governments, development banks etc. Berit has a background in Geology, Environmental Science and GIS and Remote Sensing. She has worked across sectors including Academia, Local government, international government and start-ups. Her passion is in using GIS and EO to make data visible and understandable for everyone. In her spare time Berit loves to be out hiking, in the garden and be part of the natural environment.
The pandapower QGis plugin enables importing and exporting pandapower and pandapipes networks into and from QGis. This allows user to create, modify and repair geo coordinates, substation and line data in pandapower/pandapipes networks. Fraunhofer IEE develops the plugin in the context of the project NRL, and it already helped repairing grid data according to OpenStreetMap data. In the final version, a user will be able to run grid calculations directly in QGIS and visualize the results.
In this workshop, a typical local mapping project (you know, one where cartographers always use Illustrator for) is being done using only standard QGIS visualization tools.
What is it in maps that fascinates people? A drive to understand the world around them, the nostalgic feelings of recognition or is it fuel for our adventurous and curious minds? We will take you along on our efforts to understand these drives and how it has led to making the worlds most detailed hardwood map art. QGIS has played an instrumental role in this journey of our company MAPLAB. During the session we will give insights in how we make our art and which specific role QGIS plays in this process. Naturally we will do this by bringing a small collection of our 3D Hardwood maps. You can expect to see Neighborhoods of Amsterdam, Munich and Hamburg detailed to the last canal house. We are looking forward to meet you and learn a lot from one another.
Nick Verwaal , MAPLAB, Creative Director
I'm a graduate of the TU Delft System and Control engineering. Having worked as process manager and engineering manager in one of the larger shipbuilding companies in the Netherlands my path lead me to starting my own company: MAPLAB. Here I currently focus on product development and improving our own in-house built laser cutting machines to deliver the worlds most outstanding hardwood map art.
The best time to chat with speakers and attendees
For those who already arrived and feel like meeting with other conference participants, we suggest going to this bar downtown. Drinks are at your own expense. The LOC is also planning to go here after finishing the venue preparations. Don't forget to wear some QGIS clothes or accessories! For example from the QGIS shop qgis.myspreadshop.net.
The goal of this workshop is to get you up and running in QGIS online translation process.
Carlos López Quintanilla ,
Introduction to the documentation system and the process of writing or editing documentation.
Learn how to pick an issue and write or edit the documentation online on the GitHub website.
Building documentation on your local machine and using git to make a PR.
Tudor Bărăscu , QCooperative
Tudor is a mechanical engineer and a QGIS contributor. He has extensive experience in QGIS deployments (Desktop, Server, Web, data models) for public utilities companies. Also a QGIS trainer, he loves teaching and promoting QGIS all over the world. He is also a OSGeo charter member, member of the romanian OSGeo local chapter and of the local QGIS organisation.
Build the QGIS Desktop application on your own machine.
Matthias Kuhn , OPENGIS.ch
My interest for software development started as soon as I had access to a computer. I decided to make from a hobby a job and studied programming. At the same time I started to use open source wherever possible, out of interest for the code as well as a fascination by the idea to collaborate and share.
Because the world is not just bits and bytes and because investigating cultural as well as physical questions gives a lot of insights, studying Geography was just what I was looking for and combined with a minor in cartography offered even a creative part.
All this time I continued to work in various IT and communication related jobs where I had the chance to complete my full stack ninja abilities in projects form embedded system to server environments.
One day I heard about QGIS and it wasn't hard to realize that this was just the perfect combination of all my interest and skills: spatial problems, information technology and open source.
After a couple of freelance projects I ended up founding OPENGIS.ch together with Marco Bernasocchi.
I strive to enable everyone to use powerful, high quality tools for understanding the world with QGIS in the office and QField on the go.
This is a mentored walkthrough of the entire process of getting your development environment set up, building QGIS and fixing your first small issue, submitting a Pull Request (PR) and having it approved by someone in the community.
Reporting issues is a very nice way to start contributing to QGIS. It can be scary at the beginning, but soon as you start receiving feedback and see issues being solved, it is so rewarding!
In this workshop, we will see how to report an issue properly. We will check good and bad examples from the QGIS issue queue. We will try to reproduce existing issues to improve bug triage.
Jorge Gustavo ,
Welcome on board! General information about the QGIS project, how we work together, what do we do and time for any questions.
Marco Bernasocchi , OPENGIS.ch
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField for QGIS, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing is: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.
Plenary Session, to be decided
Workshop slot, to be decided
Contributor Meeting a.k.a. Hackfest
Birds of a Feather, to be decided
Birds of a Feather, focus on education
Kurt Menke , Septima
In early 2021, Kurt moved from the USA to Denmark and now works for Septima in Copenhagen. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, trainer/teacher and author. He is an early adopter of QGIS having first downloaded it in 2005. In 2022 he published his eighth and ninth books on QGIS: Discover QGIS 3.x - Second Edition and QGIS for Hydrological Applications - Second Edition, both with Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is also a fellow of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.
Hans van der Kwast , IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Hans van der Kwast is Associate Professor of Open Science and Digital Innovation at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Hans holds a PhD in Physical Geography. Since 2012 he has worked at IHE Delft, the largest international graduate education institute in the field of water. In his teaching and capacity-development projects he actively promotes the use of open source tools and open data by young professionals from the water sector in the Global South. Through the GIS OpenCourseWare platform and his popular YouTube channel he shares free tutorials. He is a board member of the Dutch QGIS Users Association, OSGeo Charter Member and has his own consultancy QWAST-GIS. He co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.