MINERVA MOOC | Lesson 0.3: Get Comfortable with QGIS Interface
Channel: Dipylon Society
Date: 2022-06-18

The MINERVA project is a programme funded by Erasmus + KA203 and Italian National Agency INDIRE, which seeks to develop and promote innovative methods and tools for teaching, learning and assessing Cultural Heritage in the use of Geotechnologies in Higher Education. MINERVA stands for "MappINg Cultural Heritage. Geosciences VAlue in Higher Education''. 

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MINERVA Lesson 0.3 refers to the basics of QGIS, a discipline-agnostic elemental tool for any user wanting to utilize GIS in their work. QGIS is an Open Source Geographic Information System, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), available to anyone with access to a personal computer. QGIS aims to be a user-friendly GIS, providing common functions and features. QGIS is a powerful tool useful for GIS data-viewing, for data capture and for advanced GIS analysis. QGIS supports a wealth of raster and vector data formats, with new format support easily added using the plugin architecture. 
The aim of this lesson is to provide the tools and good practices for developing your own workflow for studying the various aspects of cultural heritage. More specifically, the main objective of this lesson is to familiarize you with the fundamentals of QGIS, to create the foundational knowledge needed for using it independently.