FOSS4G training sessions
The Conference will also hold a range of hands on workshops to help familiarize specific FOSS4G tools. Participants can learn and see for themselves the potential of free software tools in their respective areas of thematic interest.
Workshops are scheduled to be held on Thursday 26 January, 2017. Details are given below.
| Sl. No. | Duration | Title | Speaker | No. of Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half Day – Afternoon Session | FOSS4G Routing with pgRouting | Virginia Vergara Castillo (Vicky Vergara) | 30 |
| 2 | Half Day – Forenoon Session | Deploying Web Processing Services with ZOO-Project | Niroshan Bandara (Osaka City University), Gérald Fenoy (GeoLabs SARL), Venkatesh Raghavan (Osaka City University) | 15 |
| 3 | Half Day – Forenoon Session | Interactive Web-Mapping with QGIS | Ujaval Gandhi | 15 |
| 4 | Half Day – Forenoon Session | Mastering advances in Geoserver | Santosh Gaikwad | 20 |
| 5 | (Full day) Time:9-30am to 5-30pm | Mobile GIS workshop for data collection including environment and Biodiversity conservation. | V.Ravi Kumar, S.Narendra Prasad, S.Rama Murthy, V. Bala | 15 |
| 6 | Half Day – Afternoon Session | Basics of Web-GIS and GeoServer | Shailesh Chaure | 25 |
| 7 | Half Day – Afternoon Session | Remote Sensing Image Analysis using GRASS GIS and OpenData | Venkatesh Raghavan(Osaka City University) and Sittichai Choosumrong (Naresuan University) | 30 |
| 8 | Half Day – Forenoon Session | Interactive visualizations for remote sensing analysis using Mapbox GL-JS | Jothirnadh Sai, Manohar Erikipati, | 30 | 9 | Half Day – Afternoon Session | Big Data and Its Visualization | Appalachari | 30 | 10 | Half Day – Forenoon Session | LiDAR Processing with QGIS and LAStools | Martin | 30 |
Workshop: 1
Description of the workshop
pgRouting extends the postGIS/postgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Attendee’s previous knowledge: SQL (PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Using OSGeo Live (VM is ok) or
Please have at least the following installed:PostgreSQL, postGIS, pgRouting
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
Hands-on: please bring your laptop
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 2
Description of the workshop
ZOO-Project [1] is open source software that serves open source libraries as a WPS (Web Processing Service) compliant and developer-friendly framework to easily create and connect OGC Web Services in any HTTP Server environment. During the workshop, introduction to ZOO-Project and its function will be presented. Then, how to setup the ZOO-Kernel and to get a WPS server running will be demonstrated with some basic services. Participants will develop a simple WPS service using Python language, through simple programing exercises. OSGeo live suite will be used by the participants for this exercise participant. Finally, interaction between client interface and WPS Services will be discussed with the examples which are available in OSGeo live package.
[1]About ZOO-Project
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Basic knowledge in JavaScript and Python is required to participate.
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
VirtualBox need to be installed in the PCs prior to the workshop.
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
Participants should bring their own laptops
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 3
Description of the workshop
In this workshop, we will cover methods to publish your desktop map on the web using QGIS. qgis2web: Create OopenLayers and Leaflet based interactive maps from vector datasets.QTiles: Generate slippy maps from your QGIS project with raster or vector data,qgis2threejs: Create 3D visualizations for the web from GIS data.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Basic knowledge of QGIS
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Laptop with QGIS 2.16 installed
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
Participants should bring their own laptops
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 4
Description of the workshop
This workshop will include the GeoServer user interface, OGC web services, map styling with SLD and Styler, and tile caching with GeoWebCache. This course covers advanced visualization topics. Following topics will get covered in half day workshop
1. Use of SQL view
2. Use of CQL filter
3. Generating custom Gridset
4. Generation of custom tilecaches for desktop/mobiles
5. Publication of huge satellite data
6. Generation Map Vector Tiles (MVT)
7. Styling using YSLD extension
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Attendee’s previous knowledge: Basics of GeoServer
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Using OSGeo Live (VM is ok) or
Please have at least the following installed: GeoServer 2.10 if possible as war deployed in Apache Tomcat
Demo/hands-on
Participants to bring their own laptops
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 5
Description of the workshop
Epicollect Plus and Open Data Kit (ODK)
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Open Source GIS users
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Some experience with Open Source GIS
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
Android Mobile and Laptop
Any other information/specifications
Attendees have to:
(1) Install EpicollectPlus, and ODK on Android mobile from Google PlayStore. Internet data plan on mobile not a prerequisite.
(2) Having a Google email address will help. (Create one if do not have one).
(3) Laptop to have QGIS installed. This is a totally hands-on workshop with mock-data collection in IIIT Campus.
Session Goals:
1. Design form and Collect Data (off line) using Smart-phones
2. Up-Load collected data (mock exercise) on website (use Wi-Fi)
3. Improve your own form after field experience
4. Download collected data and Populate on QGIS
5. Upload onto your website
Workshop: 6
Description of the workshop
The focus of workshop will be on setting up and using GeoServer on Windows. GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data. It utilizes Web Mapping Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and many other open protocols for transferring the Geographical information, such as maps, spatial attributes and feature data sets.Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source, such as shapefiles, PostGIS etc. using open standards. Besides GeoServer QGIS and PostGIS will also be required and used during hands-on session.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Anybody, who has a good understanding of GIS and wants to learn the basics of Web-GIS and start working with GeoServer.
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Participant should have basic computer skills along with experience of GIS data creation and analysis.Knowledge of PostGIS, basics of programming scripts like javaScript/html is desirable.
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
During hands-on session participants will learn GeoServer GUI and how to create the workspaces, stores, styling and publishing the layers (shapefiles/PostGIS).
Any other information/specifications
Participants are required to bring their own laptops (Windows OS) with QGIS installed.
Workshop: 7
Description of the workshop
This workshop will provide training on analysis of Remote Sensing Open Data (Landsat-8, ASTER etc.) using GRASS GIS. The participants will be familiarized with ways to access free data, import data, perform analysis and export data in commonly used GIS formats. Further, techniques for mapping environmental parameters such as vegetation, land cover etc. will be demonstrated. The participants will be provided with software and test data for self-practice sessions after attending the workshop and can gain knowledge on extracting geospatial information related to their own areas of interest or specialization.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Basic background of Remote Sensing would be helpful
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
None
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
The workshop with be conducted in demonstration style and all material will be provided for self-practice after the workshop.
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 8
Description of the workshop
QGIS – Process your imagery, and conduct analysis
Mapbox Studio – imagery styling and customization and visual analysis
Mapbox GL JS – develop your own custom interactive web application
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
The workshop is designed to cover the basics of remote sensing. Participants may be anyone with a basic knowledge of remote sensing, and/or GIS. Programming knowledge is not necessary to attend this workshop.
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
All the participants are expected to have a laptop with pre-installed QGIS and a registered Mapbox Studio account. The satellite imagery used for this workshop will be provided prior to the workshop date.
Demo/hands-on (if hands-on, inform to bring their own laptops)
This is a hands-on workshop. Anyone planning to attend is expected to bring your own laptop.
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 9
Description of the workshop
This workshop will include how to deal with big data (both spatial as well as non spatial data) and its visualization using OpenLayers.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
Attendee’s previous knowledge: Basics of GeoServer, OpenLayers Javascript mapping API.
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
Using OSGeo Live (VM is ok) or
Please have at least the following installed: GeoServer if possible as war deployed in Apache Tomcat.
Demo/hands-on
This is a hands-on workshop. Anyone planning to attend is expected to bring your own laptop.
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop: 10
Description of the workshop
This will be a lively and very hands-on workshop covering the entire LiDAR
processing pipeline from Quality Checking to LiDAR Preparation and
Derivative Production. After some basic quality checks we will turn a few
raw LiDAR flightlines into a set of properly classified LiDAR tiles from
which we then derive a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) with contour lines as
well as building footprints and a vegetation layer that we then compare and
cross-process with with Open Street Map data from the same area.
Pre-requisite knowledge for the attendees/background of participants
This is a stand-alone workshop but basic familiarity with QGIS is expected.
Pre-requisite for attending workshop
No prior LiDAR processing knowledge needed but basic familiarity with QGIS
is expected.
Demo/hands-on
The workshop is *very* hands-on. You will do the entire LiDAR processing on
your laptop. Ideally you bring (any) Windows laptop with pre-installed QGIS
(2.14 and up). Non-windows laptops will be a bit more tricky. It should
work too but you need to pre-install Wine. NOTE: There is no need to
pre-install LAStools. A special version enhanced with the training data
will be provided and the installation will be part of the workshop.
Any other information/specifications
–
Workshop Details For Print Out
