QGIS is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop geographic information system used to make maps and analyze spatial data. QGIS allows users to understand, question, interpret, and visualize spatial data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps.
This book is a collection of simple to advanced techniques that are needed in everyday geospatial work, and shows how to accomplishthem with QGIS. You will begin by understanding the different types of data management techniques, as well as how data exploration works.
You will then learn how to perform classic vector and raster analysis with QGIS, apart from creating time-based visualizations. By the end of this book, you will have all the necessaryknowledge to handle spatial data management, exploration, and visualization tasks in QGIS.