Student :

Pourchet Antoine

Using open source geospatial tools - introduction

Supervisor :

Suchith Anand

Presentation Overview

Background

Aims and Objectives

Methodology

Practical skills:

Land surveying Geomatics Topography Cartography

GIS GPS Photogrammetry Town planning

Ecole Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes

About 100 first year students 10,000 students on the campus

ParisLe Mans

Background

The Project : aims and objectives

Mapping mashup project

Get ideas

Show on a map the ocean’s parameters evolution during the oil drill

Methodology

Quantum GISOpen Source GIS Software

GIS functionalities

view and explore data or compose maps

create, edit, manage and export data

analyze data

publish maps on the internet

Become familiar with GIS software

Main steps : Analysis

OutputData Input

Deepwater horizon drilling rig localisation28.736628°N 88.365997°W

Analysis

OutputData Input

Data organisation :

Layer organisation

Tile organisation

Tree-structured organisation

Raster layer (georeference information)

Vector layer (river, road, airport)

Attribute table attached to each layer

Attribute of each layer element (name, coordinate, size…)

Analysis

OutputData input

Using an interpolation plugin : Useful to draw isolines or contour lines

Data cartographic representation

Analysis

OutputData Input

Conclusions

Understand Open source GIS tools for data mining and analysis .

Prepare report on the work done

Future work includes looking into gvSIG for customization