Newsletter No4 Vol2 October

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ISPRS SCNewsLetter

Crew

Publicaon

Responsible: G r e g o r S T A V B A R

General Supervisor: E m m a n u e l B A L T S A V I A S

Supervisors: M o j c a K O S M A T I N F R A SA n k a L I S E C

Advisor: KrzysztofSTERECZAK

Student Consorum

Chair: C e m a l z g r K I V I L C I M

Newsleer Team: U r a K A N J I R AleLAZAR

N i k o s A L E X A N D R I SM a r t i n S O M E R S

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Editors Corner

Dear Friends,

Since the last issue of our newsleer many things were changed. First of all,

new Editor-in-Chief was chosen. Grega Stavbar will be now responsible for

this important medium of ISPRS Student Consorum. Krzysztof Stereczak

become ISPRS SC Co-Chair and now he has new responsibilies but he will

be acve in Newsleer crew as an advisor.

Some changes were also made in ISPRS SC structure. If you visit our web-

site you can noce that new Board Members were chosen and new Re-

gional Coordinators were asked to cooperate. During XXI ISPRS Congress,

ISPRS Student Consorum Statute was established. 3rd ISPRS SC and WG

VI/5 Summer School was successfuly carried out. Once again people fromaround a world had a chance to meet and exchange experiences. You can

nd all the informaon in this issue of Newsleer and on our web page.

In this issue you will nd reports from 3rd Summer School in Nanjing and

Youth Forum in Beijing, interesng interview with one of the summer school

lecturers Prof. Dr. Armin Gruen and other regular and new columns.

As the number of SC members is growing, so is the number of students and

professors who help us in order to make our Newsleer beer with every

issue.

We hope that you will nd this issue interesng. If you have any sugges-ons about the quality or design of our Newsleer please do not hesitate

to contact our crew. We wish you all nice reading.

Gregor Stavbar and Krzysztof Stereczak

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Table of contents

3 SPOTLIGHTS InterviwwithProf.Dr.ArminGruen

REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTSReport on ISPRS WG VI/5 and SC Summer

School

Youth Forum at the XXI Congress in Beijing

NEWS FROM STUDENT CONSORTIUM

4 A COORDINATORS EYEISPRS SC is acve in Central America

ISPRS SC from Asian eyes

Invitaon from Europe

5 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Asian Conference on Remote SensingSC webpage bullen

6 STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK FORSTUDENTS

Oportuniesforstudyingabroad

INTERESTING LINKS

7 FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTS Calendar of forthcoming events

IT NEWS

8 OTHER INFO

9 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIALAPPLICATION

Creang overview maps using WMSes

with QGIS

SomeYFParcipants

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At China Wall

Youth Forum Session
http://www.isprs-sc.org/


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Spotlights

Interview with Prof. Dr. Armin Gruen

byUraKanjir

Therearemanysuccessfulscienstsintheeldofgeodesywhocommiedtheirlifeandworktothisprofession,wedecidedtotaketheopportunityandaskthemafewquesons.Oneofthegoalsofthisinterviewistoserve

asapresentaonofpeoplethatarebigshotsofphotogrammetricsandremotesensing,oftheirworkandtheiropinionaboutthecurrentstateoftheprofession.Maybeeventondsomeencouragement,guidelinesorsuggesonforourdevelopingcareers.

News From Student Consorumby Cemal zgr Kivilcim

Thersttermbetween2004and2008isnowover.Fouryearsofrestlessworksofvolunteerstudentsandyoungresearchers, supportedbyexperi-enced academics carried our community into todays worldwide networkwithintheeldsofISPRS.Summerschools,workshops,newsleers,emailgroups,website..andmanymorethings,allwerecarriedoutbyourvolun-teernetworkwithagreatsupportoflocalinstutes,sponsorsandISPRSCouncil.Oncemore, Iwouldlike tothank all who contributedto suchauniqueiniave.TheoverallgeneratedoutputisthemainproofhowSCprovidedaglobalsynergy.IbelieveitalsomeansthatSCaccomplisheditsmissionsuccessfully.

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Reports From Past Events

3rd ISPRS Summer School in Nanjing, ChinabyJinYini

TheWGVI/5togetherwiththeStudentConsorum(SC)organizedthe3rdSummerSchoolwhichwasapartoftheISPRSCongressheldinBeijingonthree-dimensionalgeospaalinformaon.Thiseventtook

placeatNanjingNormalUniversity,Nanjing,ChinafromJune26thtoJuly1st.ThetopicwasAcquision, processing and representaon of three-dimensional geospaal informaon, which is the trend of online3DinteracverepresentaonofgeospaalinformaonasleadedbyGoogleEarthandVirtualEarth.Thistopicaractedstudentstonet-workbased3Dmodelingandvisualizaonoftheworld.Thetechnolo-gies of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing inevitably present auniqueopportunitytosuchapplicaons.

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Youth Forum at the XXI ISPRS Congress, July 5-6, Beijing

byM.Fras,A.Lisec,U.Kanjir

TheYouthForumwasadedicatedspecialCongressacvityundertheauspicesofTechnicalCommissionVIEducaon and Outreach and inparculartheWGVI/5Promoon of the Profession to Students andtherelatedISPRSStudentConsorum(SC).Itwasorganisedforthesec-ondmeduringtheISPRScongressandaimedatprovidingaplaormwithintheCongressforyoungscienststopresenttheirsciencwork,comeincontactwithadvancedscienstsandprofessionals,discussor-ganisaonalmaersoftheStudentConsorumandexchangeculturalexperiencesandpromotemutualunderstandingandfriendship.

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This me we had honor to speakwithProf.Dr.ArminGruen,profes-sorattheETHZurich,whoalsogaveveryinteresnglecturesinSummerSchool2008heldinNanjing,China.

Read on for the full interview which

took place on Saturday aernoon,5thofJuly2008,attheCongressaf-terYouthForuminBeijing.

Read more...
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A Coordinators Eye

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ISPRS SC is Acve in Central America

CentralAmericarecentlyhostedatwo-dayworkshoponAirborneLaserTechnologyandDataProcessing,sponsoredbyISPRS.ThisworkshopwasaachedtotheXIIISelperSymposiumthattookplaceinHabana,Cuba,

onSeptember2008.Thirteenstudents,includingthe2regionSC coor-dinators,receivedhelpfromISPRStoaendboththeworkshopandthesymposium.Thiswasanopportunitytoestablishcontactwithresearchersandremote-sensingprofessionalsfromalloverLan-America.Fromthisinteracon,wecameupwiththeiniavetocreateawebspacespecictotheregionundertheframeworkofISPRSSC.WewereveryexcitedtoseethegreatinterestshowninjoiningtheConsorumduringthisevent.

Elena Lobo and Carlomagno Soto,

Regional Student Coordinators for Central America

ISPRS SC From Asian Eyes

In2007I gottheopportunitytobecomeISPRS-SCstudentcoordinatorandItooktheadvantage.IreadallaboutISPRSandSContheweb;alltheinformaonIneededtocleartheconceponofthestructureoftheas-sociaonswerefoundthere.Ireceivedalsoseriesofe-mailswhichwere

allaboutSCeventsandSCacvies.Atthatme,ahottopicwasthe3rdSummerSchoolinNanjing,withthethemeAcquision,processingandrepresentaonofthree-dimensionalgeospaalinformaonandXXIstISPRSCongress2008,whichwasheldinBeijing.Iwasabletojoinbotheventsthissummer.SummerSchoolandCon-gresswasagreatopportunitytobeapartofonebig,internaonalfam-ily.ThereImetmanyfriendsfromotherconnents/regionsfromallovertheworld.Weexchangedalotofgreatandhelpfulideasandinforma-on.Itwasveryinteresngandexcingexperience,sincewepossess

dierentwaysofthinking.Sociallifewasalsoveryfruiul;wesharedfoodinorientalstyles,wewenttopartyinChinesebarsanddancedallnightlong.Itwasveryfunnywhenstudentsfromothercountriesstartedtousechopscks;sincetheyarenotusedtoeatwiththem,theyfacedsomedicules.Buthowever,alltheproblemswithwayofeangwerepassedinaweek.IntheendofCongressonestudentrememberedagreatidea;heusedchopscksasasouvenir;hecollectedallhisfriendsname/signatureonit.Professors,whichnameswerebeforefamiliartousonlyonreferencepapers,gaveinteracvelecturesduringtheSummerSchool.Wewere

abletomeetthemandtospeakwiththemaboutallthethingswewerecuriousabout.Itwasveryexcingtospeakwithsuchgiantsofourpro-fession!Amazingly,the1stSummerSchoolwasheldintheEurasiancountry,Tur-key;the2ndwasEuropeancountry,Sloveniaandthe3rdAsia,China.I reallybelievethat StudentConsorumbringsnorth-east-south-westculturaltransaconandknowledgeexchangestoallthepeopleanykindinvolvedintheorganizaon.

Kyaw Sann Oo,

Regional Student Coordinators for Asia

Invitaon from Europe

Currently, therearemorethan50members fromEuropeancountries.HelpustospreadthewordaboutSCtoyourcolleaguesandfriends;alsoyoucanpostusallinteresngprojectsfromyourFaculesthatcouldin-volvesomeforeignstudents!Itwouldbeagreatexperienceforbothof

yourworkingteamandthegueststudenttoparcipateintheforeignstu-dentexchange.ISPRSGeneralCongressandtheISPRSSummerSchoolinChinawasabigupswingforallofusandwiththisfeelingandthesupportoftheISPRSthatwehaveweareconnuingourworkwithopmism!

Ivana Dabanovi,

RegionalStudentCoordinatorforEurope


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ACRS 2008

Asian Conference on Remote Sensing(ACRS)willbeheldfrom10thto14thofNo-vember,2008inColombo,SriLanka.Theconferencedealswithresearchfromvari-ouseldofgeoinformaon.TheconferenceisannuallyheldinAsiancountriessince1980.

Duringthe21stcenturyACRSisdevelopingintoamatureorganisaonprovidingnotonlypaperswhichcontributetotheregionaldevelopmentbutalsoplayinganim-portantroleinculturalexchangeintheregion.ACRS2007wasorganizedinKualaLumpur,Malaysia,12-16,November,2007with863parcipantsfrom38 countriesandregions.TheconferenceisjointlyorganisedbylocalhostsandAARS(AsianAssociaononRemoteSensing);furthermore,parcipaonofgeoinformacsusercommuniesisincreasing.Inthisincomingconference(ACRS2008),ISPRS-SC,anewstudent-orientedunitun-

derneaththeISPRS,willbeintroducedinACRS2008.FurtherdetailsabouttheeventmaybefoundattheACRS2008website:hp://survey.gov.lk/acrs2008

ACRSs30thanniversary(ACRS2009)willbeheldinBeijing,China.

Announcements

SC Webpage Bullen

Asthepersonresponsibleforthiswebsite,IwouldliketoinformtheStudentConsorumof thewebsiteprocessingfrompasttofuture.ThebasicideaisacommunicaonplaorminordertoprovideageneralnetworkforallISPRSSCMembers.Forthiswe

haveestablishedthewebsitewww.isprs-studentconsorum.organdastheteamresponsibleforthewebpagewillworkonthefollowingissues.InordertostoreallmembersintheonlinedatabasesystemwehavearrangedOnlinemembershipandregistraonviathisweb-site www.isprs-sc.org.Fromthispageyoucanseeonlinegeo-graphicaldistribuonofmembersonworldmapandalsoyoucanclickonthehumaniconstodiscovermoreinformaon.Tobecomeamemberofthiswebpageyouneedtoprovidebasicinformaonaboutyourself.Whenyoullintheformyoumayuploadyourprolepicturewithyourresume.Youcanalsousethemessagingsystembetweenallmembers.Asamemberofthiswebsiteyoucanndinformaononpastevents,informaonlinksaboutfutureeventsandndfriendsfromallovertheworldwhoareinterestedinthesametopic.Wewilluploadnewissues,updatedeventsandlatestnewsseconfrommetome.Wealreadyhavemorethan100membersfromover30countries

worldwide.Wearewaingforyourcommentsandcontribuonsaboutourwebpage.Youarewelcometojoinourdatabase.Enjoywalkingour wayAhmetSENGUL,SCWebResponsible
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Studies and Praccal Work for Students

This column serves as a guide for the students who are thinking or are willing to go studyingordoingpraccalworkabroad.Wehavesearchedfornewopportuniesindierentfacul-es,schoolsandotherlearningprogramsallovertheworldinordertoencourage as manystudentsaspossibletotakenewstepstowardsnewhorizons.

The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZGermanResearchCentreforGeosciences,departmentofGeodesyandRemoteSensinginvitesapplicaonsforaPhDStudentposi-on.TheprojectisfundedbytheEUinternaonalprojectEUFAR-EuropeanFacilityforAirborneResearchinEnvironmentalandGeosciences.TheHelmholtzCentrePostdamisthenaonalResearchCentreforGeosciencesinGermanyandamemberoftheHelmholtzAssociaon.

For more details check here.

The Ohio State University,theDepartment of Civil and Environ-mental Engineering and Geodec Scienceoersthreeareasofspecializaonwithingeodecscienceatthegraduatelevel-ge-odesy, photogrammetry, andmapping / geographic informaonscience.Theyoerspecializaonsinnextareas:geodesy,photo-grammetryandmappingandGIS.Anenrollmentof60-70gradu-atestudentsingeodecscienceallowssmallclassesandanin-matelearningenvironment.

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Lund University GIS Centre,Sweden,oersaMastersprograminGeographical Informaon Systems(GIS).TheprogramwillleadtoaDegreeofMasterinGeographicalInformaonSystems,is fullyInternet-based- distancelearning-exceptpresentaonandde-fenceofthenalthesisanditisfreeofchargeforallstudents(no

tuionfees).Formoreinfocheckhere.Victoria University of Wellington,NewZealand,theSchool of Geography, Environment and Earth Scienceoers a Master of Environmental studies and Post-graduateDiploma in Environmental studies. VictoriaUniversityoersuniqueopportuniesforworkplace-ments and research with the countrys major researchinstutes,governmentdepartmentsandcommissions,internaonal agencies, industries, regional and localgovernment, iwiorganisaonsandenvironmentalor-ganisaons.Allthedetailsabouttheprogrammaybe

found here.

Interesng links

In this issue we are recomending these links:

GeoConnexion

hp://www.geoconnexion.com/

EDUCATION

Educaon, Training, Research and FellowshipOpportuniesintheRS,GIShp://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/avidades-cep/EducaonDirectory/

TUTORIALS

Tutorials on Laser Scanning

hp://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AlmetricLidar_Tutorial.htm

JOURNALS

EE Publishers

hp://www.eepublishers.co.za/

Internaonal Journal of Geoinformacs

hp://j-geoinfo.net/FREE SOFTWARE

ISPRS - CATCON,asowareComputerAssistedTeaching CONtesthp://www.isprs.org/catcon/

E-foto: AfreeGNU/GPLeducaonaldigitalpho-

togrammetricworkstaonhp://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS

EEGECS-EuropeanEducaoninGeodecEngineering,CartographyandSurveyinghp://eegecs.webs.upv.es/main.asp
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/-;jsessionid=76997DDE73F2BE37B6DA5EB88BC5FF43?$part=CmsPart&$event=display&docId=2627020&cP=GFZextern.content.detail.Newshttp://www.ceegs.ohio-state.edu/GSGRADUATE/http://www.giscentrum.lu.se/luma-gis/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/geo/environmental-studies/index.htmlhttp://www.geoconnexion.com/http://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/atividadescep/EducationDirectory/http://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/atividadescep/EducationDirectory/http://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AltimetricLidar_Tutorial.htmhttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AltimetricLidar_Tutorial.htmhttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AltimetricLidar_Tutorial.htmhttp://www.eepublishers.co.za/http://j-geoinfo.net/http://www.isprs.org/catcon/http://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/http://eegecs.webs.upv.es/main.asphttp://eegecs.webs.upv.es/main.asphttp://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/http://www.isprs.org/catcon/http://j-geoinfo.net/http://www.eepublishers.co.za/http://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AltimetricLidar_Tutorial.htmhttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~blohani/LiDAR_Tutorial/Airborne_AltimetricLidar_Tutorial.htmhttp://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/atividadescep/EducationDirectory/http://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/atividadescep/EducationDirectory/http://www.geoconnexion.com/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/geo/environmental-studies/index.htmlhttp://www.giscentrum.lu.se/luma-gis/http://www.ceegs.ohio-state.edu/GSGRADUATE/http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/-;jsessionid=76997DDE73F2BE37B6DA5EB88BC5FF43?$part=CmsPart&$event=display&docId=2627020&cP=GFZextern.content.detail.News


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Future ISPRS related events

Internaonal Workshop on Energy from space for asustainable environment

Istanbul,Turkey,06-08November2008www.hho.edu.tr/efs

Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformacs: Tools for Global

Change ResearchPotsdam,Germany,12-14Nov2008www.isde-summit-2008.org/front_content.php

Global Space Tech Forum Space Technology

Commercialisaon for the Future

AbuDhabi,UAE,16-18Nov2008www.smg-conferences.com

Geomacs Atlanc 2008 Conference

SaintJohnandNewBrunswick,Canada,19-20Nov2008www.geomacsatlanc.com

GIT4NDM & Rehabilitaon 2008

Bangkok,Thailand,01-02December2008hp://e-geoinfo.net/git4ndm.html

GEO Tunis 2008

Tunis,Tunisia,26-30November2008www.geotunis.org

Digital Image Compung

Canberra,Australia,1-3Dec2008hp://dicta2008.rsise.anu.edu.au

3D-ARCH workshop on 3D Virtual Reconstrucon and

Visualizaon of Complex Architectures

Trento,Italy,25-28February2009www.3d-arch.org

IT NEWS

DAT/EM Summit Evoluon 4.5

DAT/EMSystemsInternaonal(AK,USA)hasreleasedVersion4.5forSummitEvoluon.SummitEvoluon isthe groundbreakingdigital(socopy)stereoploerdevelopedtoenhanceproducvity,eciency,andtheuserexperience.SummitEvoluonProfessionalforallCAD/GIShighlightsinclude:AQuickOponstool-bartotoggleonandopopularfeatures;improvedmosaicboundarymanagementandcreaon;expandedcoordinateconversiondatabase;anew,editable2DSuperImposi-onsenginthestatusbar;Merge/ExtractSummitprojectmanagementtool;theLeicaTopomouseUSBinputdevice.

Forthosewhowanttoknowwhatisnewincomputersoware;ineveryissuewewillpresentsomenewprogramswhichsupportspaalmaterial.Inthisedionweareintroducingtwonewprograms:

MicroStaon:Theabilitytocollectspotelevaonsintheeditorwasadded.JOINIThasseveralnewfeatureswithimprovedperformance,withthreejoiningmethodsandsmoothingopons.DatemProlenowextendstofourelementplacementoponsaswellasaddionalprolestartloca-ons.Theabilitytobreakawayfromtheproleandresumelateren-hancesproducon.

ArcGIS:ExpandedzoomoponsforlargercoveragewithinArcMapviewscoincidentwithSummitEvoluon.SummitEvoluonVersion4.5iscompablewiththefollowingCADversions:

AutoCAD:R14,2002,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009;

MicroStaon:MicroStaonV8and2004Edion;ArcGIS:ArcMap9.1and9.2.

To nd more informaon about this productclick here.
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Tiltan TLiD-R2 for Automac LiDAR Data Processing

TiltanSystemsEngineering(Israel)hasreleasedtheTLiD-R2,asecondgeneraonofTLiDAutomacLiDARdataprocessingproduct.Themainimprovementsof release 2 are shorter processing speed, power lineclassicaonandvectoringcapability,buildingvectorimprovementsandmanualvectoredingcapabilies.Tiltanleveragesitsexperienceinthe3Dsimulatorworldtocreateanin-

tuivedesignfeaturing2Dand3Dimagesrunningside-by-side,withtheabilitytoviewtheclassiedpointcloudand3Dphotorealiscpresenta-onsidebyside.ThisenablesbeerunderstandingandQAofautoma-callyderivedvectorsandDEM.TheTLiDsowarepackageallowsforrapidimportabilityoflargelesandautomac,quickprocessingdrivenbya smallnumberofcustomizableparameters, increasing accuracy and reducing training requirements.TheQAscreensenablefull-colorcustomizaonofindividualfeatures,allowingforeasydierenaon.

TLiDinputisastandardgeo-referencedLASorTXTpointcloud.OutputsareDEM,DSMbuildingroofvectors,powerlinevectors,treelistand

otheroutputsinmulpleuserselectablecoordinate systems and data formats.Tiltans QA team focused on accuracytesng to assure ASPRS Class 1 topo-graphicelevaonaccuracy,givenasuit-ablepointcloud.

For more info visit this page.

TLID Screen

Automacalycreated3D Power lines vectoring

Other INFO

ESRI Publishes Open Data Model for Managing Informaon about

Assets and OperaonsESRI,alongwithotherorganizaonsinthefaciliesmanagementindustry,haspublishedadatamodelforcreang,storing,andsharinginformaonaboutstructuresandtheirassets.

hp://spaalnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2008/oct/20/news5.html

Grizzly Bears Habitat and Health Analyzed and Mapped Using GISBy Maggie Jones (ESRI Writer)

Grizzlybearhabitatmaps,whichintegratedataaboutthebearshealthandmigratoryrange,helplandandresourcemanagersbeerplanmberhar-vesng,mining,andoildrillingoperaonstoavoidharmingtheanimals.www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/1008/feature.htm l

ERDAS Announces Automated Feature Extracon Soluon: IMAG-

INE ObjecveNorcross,GA-October17,2008-ERDASannouncesthereleaseofIMAG-INEObjecve,anewtoolprovidingobject-basedmul-scaleimageclas-

sicaonandfeatureextraconcapabiliesforbuildingandmaintainingaccurategeospaalcontent.www10.giscafe.com/nbc/arcles/

Center Dedicated to Developing Spaal Intelligence Opens

Dr.MichaelGoodchildstressestheimportanceofprovidingastrongedu-caonalgroundinginspaalintelligence.ItsthereasonhehelpedlaunchthenewCenterforSpaalStudiesattheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara.www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/1008/spaal-at-ucsb.htm l

New GRASS Release Migrates to Microso WindowsSinceitwasdevelopedin1982bytheU.S.ArmyConstruconEngineer-ingResearchLaboratories,adivisionoftheU.S.ArmyCorpsofEngineers,GRASS(GeographicResourcesAnalysisSupportSystem)opensourceGISplaormhasevolvedfromitsoriginalpurposeasalandmanagementandenvironmentalplanningtoolforthemilitary,to apowerfulGISusedby

academia,commercialinstuonsandgovernmentagencies.www10.giscafe.com/nbc/arcles/
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Creang Overview Maps using WMSes with QGISbyNikosAlexandris

ThisshorttutorialdemonstratesthecreaonofoverviewmapsforanylocaonontheglobeperformingafewsimplestepsulizingQGIScapabilitytouseWebMappingServices(WMS).ThefollowingstepswereperformedusingQGISversion0.11.0MesandshouldapplyonanyoperangsystemwithaworkingQGISinstallaon1.Please,investsomemetoreadtheUserGuide2.

Lets start!1.LaunchQGIS(fromaterminalbytypingqgisorfromthegraphicalmenu)

2.SelecttheAdd WMS Layerbuon(alternavelyselectfromthemenuLayer >AddWMSLayer...orjusthittheWkey)

3.SelecttheNASA(JPL)3 server and hit Connect.Severallayersprovidedbythisserverwillshowup.

4.Addforexamplethelayerentledglobal_mosaic.ThenacvatetheaddedlayerinthelegendandhittheZoomFullbuon

5.Zoom-intoanareaofinterestor,ifyouknowthecoordinatesofyourinterest,justgothere!

LoadtheZoomtoPointpluginfromthemenu:Plugins > Plugin Manager...>(scrolldowntotheendofthelistandacvatetheplugin)ZoomtoPoint> OKLaunchitbyselecngitsbuonandenterthecoordinatesofyourinterest(e.g.14.1E,13.5NforLakeChad)andzoominorouttogetthedesiredextentforyourmap.

6.Youcanaddanewvectorlayeranddigizeapointforthelake:

Layer > NewVectorLayer...(orpresssimplytheNkey)>typeaName and select the Type String > Hit the Add values manually

buon>OK>nameandsavethenewvectorlayer.

Toogleeding> CapturePoint>giveanameforthenewpointintheEnter Aribute Values dialog > OK

Before proceeding to the last two steps read more about Layer Propertiesand map decorationson QGIS documentation available at:http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=79

7.NextyoucanplaywiththeLayer Properestosetasymbolforyourpointandcustomizetheappearanceofthedisplayedlabel:right click on the newly added vector layer and select Properes

8.Finallyaddanortharrow,ascalebar,sometextandsaveyoumapasanimageFile > Same As Image...)orprint(withthePrintcomposerfromthemenuFile > Print...)

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