Best practices for making geospatial data analysis-ready

intermediate
QGreenland Resource
Duration: 185 minutes
Activity Summary

These examples and exercises from a QGreenland CryoCloud researcher workshop in 2023 are intended to help you make geospatial data analysis-ready and useable alongside QGreenland. These resources were designed for the workshop audience fully in mind, but includes resources on the topics outlined below that are helpful and/or usable for anyone looking to work with QGreenland geospatial data. 

Learning Goals and Outcomes  

Students will:  

  • Learn how to make geospatial data analysis-ready with GIS tools 

  • Use best practices for formatting geospatial data 

  • Understand key open science concepts 

  • Understand key metadata concepts for geospatial data 

Context for Use

Topic 

Geospatial technology 

Course Type 

Tutorial 

Audience 

Intermediate user 

Instructional Time 

185 minutes of instructional time spread across 3 days 

Context 

These materials and exercises are best suited to those users with some GIS and programming experience. 

Materials 

Computer with access to the QGreenland Researcher Workshop Website 

Materials Prep 

Have slides and exercises printed/downloaded/shared for students’ use