FOSS4G 2015

Venue: : CCE Lecture Hall (Next to IISc Student's Hostel Office, behind JRD Tata Main Library) IISc.
Course Co-ordinator: Dr. T V Ramachandra, Associate Faculty, CiSTUP, IISc.
E Mail: cestvr@cistup.iisc.ac.in, Tel: 91-080-2293309

Date/Time	9 to 10.30 am	11 to 1.00 pm	2 to 4.30 pm	5 to 7. 00 pm
21^st August	Inauguration (9-10)	TVR - Principles and applications of GIS & RS	Bhuvan - Aishwarya, NRSC	Opensource Softwares (PDF) - BHA
22^nd August	Digital Image Processing - TVR	Satellites (PDF) & GPS (PDF)- BHA	Maps (PDF) & Map Projections (PDF)- BHA	GRASS (PDF)- BHA, VS
23^rd August	Open Jump (PDF) VS	QGIS (PDF)- BS	QGIS - BS, VS	QGIS - BS, VS
24^th August	R (PDF)-Ellen Brock	Webserver -TNM	GRASS (PDF-1), (PDF-2) - BHA, VS	6.30 pm - Valedictory

	Speaker	Organisation	Subject
TVR	Dr. T V Ramachandra	IISc, Bangalore	RS, GIS, Open-source GIS
AR	Arul Raj	NRSC, Hyderabad	Bhuvan
BA	Dr. Bharath H Aithal	IISc, Bangalore	GRASS, GPS
VS	Vinay S	IISc, Bangalore	GRASS
BS	Bharath Setturu	IISc, Bangalore	QGIS
TNM	Tara N M	ENVIS, CES, IISc	Webserver

The Workshop Plan: The plan for 4 days GIS workshop using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools is as under

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Inauguration:

Lecture on introduction to Free and Open Source Geospatial tools

Desktop-GIS:
Paper map to Digital Map

Scanning/Digitizing
Topology Building
Geo-referencing (Warping)
Attribute Creation

Map Visualization to Map Layout making

View-data/ Making Legends
Labeling/ Symbology/ Thematic mapping
Multi-layer/ Overlay/ Legends
Export as SVG/JPEG
Making map layout

Spatial Analysis

Single Layer Queries (Simple queries/ Attribute queries)
Multi-layer queries (Spatial queries)
Intersection/Clipping/ Point to surface interpolation

Generating new layers using queries

Raster Analysis

Raster Clipping using vector polygon
Raster to Vector
Reclassification and Resampling

Database

How to design DB
Populate GeoDB from Desktop GIS
Query GeoDB from Desktop GIS

Web-GIS

Overview

Fourth Day: Field data collection and GIS analysis followed by presentations by participants
Queries and Feedback

Software: Desktop GIS: OpenJUMP/ QGIS, Database: PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
Workshop Anticipated Outcome: At the end of workshop, the trainees will have learnt not only the fundamentals but application in Geoinformatics for desktop use. In addition, the trainees will have a very good grounding on open source databases and their use. The practical integrated workshops will further enhance the capacities in use of open source GIS. The trainees will also have a very good understanding of the concepts of web GIS.