QGIS

for the Planetary Scientist

held at the OpenPlanetary Data Cafe, EPSC 2019 15-20 September 2019, Geneve - Switzerland

Alessandro Frigeri
Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - IAPS
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF
Rome, Italy
alessandro.frigeri@inaf.it / @afrigeri


Development started in 2002 by Gary Sherman
## QGIS, today QGIS is at: * Stable: QGIS 3.8.2 'Zanzibar' (16.08.2019) * LTR: QGIS 3.4.11 'Madeira' * GNU/Linux - OS X - MS Windows - Android (QField) * GRASS, Saga, OTB modules accessible from the QGIS GUI

QGIS is a project within OSGEO



The Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a non-profit non-governmental organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.

QGIS Features useful to planetary scientist

  • OGC Web-Services: WMS, WFS(-T), CSW, WCS
  • (Planetary) geologic mapping capabilities
    • Stream digitizing
    • Geologic symbology available
    • Printproof: legends, grids, scales
  • opens Planetary Data System v4 images/maps

OWS support in QGIS

USGS WMS basemaps

Geologic mapping


e.g. DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.08.015

Crater mapping/statistics



PDS4 support in QGIS

CaSSIS data from PSA and in QGIS
Step one: Select data from PSA (or PDS)

PDS4 support in QGIS

CaSSIS data from PSA and in QGIS
Step two: Download data from PSA (or PDS)

PDS4 support in QGIS

CaSSIS data from PSA and in QGIS
Step three: Visualize PDS4 image data in QGIS

Entry point for updates/discussion

A thread on QGIS for planetary mapping has been opened on the openplanetary.org forum

Acknowledgements

A special thanks goes to the all the QGIS/FOSS4G developers, contributors and sponsors, and planetary data users testing these tools!

that's it!

... and that's only the beginning!

Audience: demo of paricular aspect? Questions?