QGIS and Generic Tools

The use of GIS is becoming a fundamental tool for the scientific community and the public authorities responsible for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies. Nowadays, GIS not only allow us to highlight the research results or an application project, but also to carry out the different stages of creation of the information and the knowledge necessary for these projects. QGIS, through its free and multiplatform philosophy, is a fertile breeding ground for these developments. It is even more so with the new paradigm in remote sensing: today, access to geospatial imagery is facilitated for a large number of actors; the cornerstone of studies, projects and research is becoming the capacity to process this large amount of data.

This set of four books describes, in the first volume, the operating principle of QGIS and the fundamental libraries most frequently used in image processing and geomatics: GDAL, GRASS, SAGA and OTB. This volume presents numerous core functionalities that will be implemented in several practical cases of remote sensing and spatial analysis presented in the other three volumes of the set: management and processing of raster and vector formats, georeferencing, geoprocessing tools, statistical analysis, spatial analysis (on networks, on surfaces) and classifications, starting from core processing up to visualization and cartographic editing.

This work, carried out by scientists of a high technical level, is addressed to students (masters, engineering schools, PhD), engineers and researchers who have already adopted GIS. In addition to the texts of the proposed chapters, readers will have access to the data and tools allowing the complete realization of the scientific procedure described in each chapter, as well as access to screenshots of all the windows illustrating each step necessary to the realization of each application.