How can you seamlessly collect and analyze field data with QGIS? In this one-on-one course, you’ll learn how to use Mergin Maps and the Input App for accurate data collection and real-time synchronization with QGIS. Discover how to set up surveys and process field data to gain reliable GIS insights. With personalized guidance and hands-on assignments, you’ll apply QGIS directly to your fieldwork.
Field data is the foundation of reliable geographic information. Whether you work in ecology, agriculture, or urban planning, accurate data collection is crucial for sound analysis and informed decision-making. But how do you collect field data efficiently and manage it easily?
QGIS is a powerful open-source GIS tool that allows you to visualize, analyze, and manage geographic data. It offers a wide range of features to make the most of maps and datasets. Mergin Maps makes it easy to collect field data and sync it instantly between mobile devices and desktop software, ensuring you always work with the most up-to-date information. The Input App provides an intuitive way to capture data, even without an internet connection, so you never lose valuable data.
By combining these tools, you bring digital maps and real-time data collection together into a single streamlined process. This saves time, minimizes errors, and increases the efficiency of your GIS projects.
In this course, you’ll learn how to collect, manage, and process field datasets using QGIS, Mergin Maps, and the Input App. The training is hands-on, focused on efficiently collecting and analyzing geographic data.
You’ll start by setting up a survey, where you’ll learn how to organize structured data collection. Next, you’ll learn how to open this data on your computer and load it into QGIS for further processing. Then, you’ll learn to set up a project in QGIS, working with layers, attributes, and project settings to lay the foundation for your analysis.
After covering these basics, you’ll discover how to use the project in the Input App, allowing you to easily collect data in the field, even without an internet connection. You’ll also learn how to further customize and optimize the project for your specific needs. Finally, you’ll learn to collaborate on a survey project, sharing data and working within a shared GIS project.
After the course, you will be able to independently collect, process, and analyze field data using QGIS and Mergin Maps. You will apply the theory directly in practical assignments and realistic scenarios, so you can immediately use the tools in your field of work.
Blended learning combines independent online learning with hands-on, interactive sessions, allowing you to gain both theoretical knowledge and practical experience with QGIS and field data analysis. The online modules give you the freedom to study at your own pace and include interactive lessons on geospatial data collection, fieldwork, and GIS workflows. You’ll learn how to use Mergin Maps and the Input App for efficient data collection, how to process field data in QGIS, and how to use it for spatial analysis.
During the hands-on online sessions, you’ll immediately apply the knowledge you’ve gained. You’ll work with real geodata and receive guidance from GIS experts. You’ll learn how to correctly collect and manage field data, optimize project settings in QGIS, and how to share and synchronize data within a team. By working hands-on with realistic GIS scenarios, you’ll develop practical workflows to ensure error-free and up-to-date data—essential for accurate GIS applications.
The combination of flexible online learning and practical training ensures that you not only learn how to work with QGIS and Mergin Maps, but also how to use them effectively for realistic GIS projects. After this course, you will be able to independently collect, analyze, and apply field data, enabling you to make better-informed decisions in your field.
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You’ll receive 1-on-1 guidance. After signing up, our course coordinator will contact you to schedule your first session.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Do you have questions about the course content? Or are you unsure whether the course aligns with your learning goals or preferences? Would you prefer an in-house or private course? We’d be happy to help.
After the course, you’ll have another two weeks to ask the instructor questions. Since the instructor is already teaching other courses, it’s best to email your questions to info@geo-ict.nl. Your question will be forwarded to the instructor, and you’ll receive a response within 24 hours.
If you’re a bit further along and encounter practical problems you can’t solve on your own, it’s best to use Online Support. You’ll spend one day online with the instructor and receive personalized one-on-one instruction. All your problems will be resolved, and you’ll have made significant progress.
If you run into problems in practice that you can’t solve on your own, you have two options: you can sign up for a beginner or advanced course, or you can sign up for Online Support.
You’ll spend a day online with an instructor and receive personalized one-on-one instruction. All your problems will be resolved, and you’ll have made significant progress.
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All courses are taught in person. Course hours are from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Coffee, tea, lunch, and a laptop are provided.
Taking a course online is also possible, but we only offer hybrid courses in exceptional cases. If you wish to participate in a course online, please indicate this during registration—select “Online” as the location. If that is not possible, this course will only be offered on-site in Apeldoorn.
Yes, we do this regularly. Our instructor will come to your location and bring laptops for the participants. All you need to do is arrange a classroom at your location.
Please email your requirements to info@geo-ict.nl, and we will send you a quote. Once you’ve confirmed the order, our course coordinator will contact you to schedule the training days.
After each course, participants receive a link to our evaluation portal. There, you can share your feedback on what you liked and didn’t like about the course. We always do our very best, but of course, there may be times when you have a complaint. Click on “Complaints Procedure.” It explains what steps you can take. Geo-ICT Training Center, Netherlands is a member of the Dutch Council for Training and Education (NRTO).
After the course, we will email you a link to our evaluation portal. There, you can log in and fill out an evaluation form, and you can also download your certificate of participation.
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