Welcome to GEOG 413 Advanced GIS Labs! Today we will be going outside to collect some high precision GPS data! Before we get going lets take a few minutes to make sure everything is in order for the semester try to access the following resources, if anything doesn’t open let Read more…
Getting prepared for assignment 3 In order for Scott and Matt to grade projects, we need access to the PostGIS. A readonly user needs to be set up. We will borrow this from: https://gist.github.com/oinopion/4a207726edba8b99fd0be31cb28124d0
Security using Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) We are going to set up some firewall rules to illustrate how we can lock up our machines, but yet allow access for access for certain protocols. Installing UFW We should really update our machines before we do this, but we did that at the Read more…
Data security and privacy are large topics to discuss. There are a great deal of people employed in this field and whole courses are necessary to tackle the topics within these two fields of interest. There is generally some cyber sort of threat added to the list of concerns for Read more…
Prepping for the Tutorial Before we get going: Start connections to both your Virtual Machine and Osmotar Open up a browser on both interfaces Installing FME on Debian Download FME In the browser on your VM, download the file:https://downloads.safe.com/fme/2020/fme-desktop-2020_2020.2.0.0.20787~debian.10_amd64.deb You can find the file by searching out FME Downloads, go Read more…
We are going to take the lessons we learned in the Tutorials and lecture 5 to create a custom project in SMASH and collect some data. This assignment will be worth 25% of your grade for the course. It is due November 20th. Using SMASH We have played with the Read more…
Question 1 Below is the procedure for reducing the processing time of a FME/FMW script. The point of proposing this assignment was to get an understanding of different data structures for GIS data formats. Below are the procedures for cleaning up the saf format: Unzip the .saf in 7zip of Read more…
Getting data out the hard way Why would we make anything easy for you in this course?.. We are looking at the data we bring out of SMASH in two ways. The way you may most likely bring it in if you are working as a GIS Analyst with no Read more…
The Video Link for this Tutorial is:Video Link GNSS refresher Take a look at the Geog 204 tutorial on GNSS to get a refresher on how GNSS works. GNSS stands for Global Navigation Satellite System. GDAL and creating a list of raster layers I (Scott) realize windows is getting better, Read more…
Enterprise data security and safety Ensuring your data is safe is part of being a Spatial Data Manager. Today we are going to look at backing up our database and then taking a look at versioning data in PostGIS through a QGIS plugin. Backing up your data Backing up the Read more…