Illustrations
This page contains all the figures and illustrations from The Geospatial Desktop
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3.1 – GIS functions
3.2 – Bird sightings: The bigger the dot, the more birds
3.3 – A 200-foot buffer around the lakes
4.1 – Some OSGIS applications in relation to class of user
5.1 – uDig Data Sources Dialog
5.2 – uDig displaying world borders
5.3 – Classifying countries by population
5.4 – Countries classified by population
5.5 – Viewing attributes in uDig
5.6 – QGIS with sample data loaded
5.7 – QGIS vector layer properties
5.8 – Nicely rendered world_borders layer
5.9 – QGIS continuous color renderer settings
5.10 – QGIS continuous color renderer results
5.11 – QGIS graduated renderer settings
5.12 – QGIS graduated renderer results
5.13 – Unique value renderer for birds
5.14 – Viewing birds by name
5.15 – QGIS unique renderer settings for a geologic map
5.16 – QGIS unique renderer result
5.17 – QGIS Identify results
5.18 – Attribute table for the cities layer
5.19 – Search Query Builder
5.20 – Attribute action enabled in QGIS
6.1 – Montana topographic map in QGIS
6.2 – NASA world mosaic viewed in QGIS
6.3 – QGIS raster properties dialog box
6.4 – Semitransparent digital elevation model draped over a DRG
6.5 – QGIS raster pyramids dialog box
6.6 – Grid of silver values
6.7 – Grid of silver values in pseudocolor
7.1 – Creating a new shapefile in QGIS
7.2 – QGIS with new layer ready to edit
7.3 – Entering attributes for a feature
7.4 – Results of digitizing lakes in QGIS
7.5 – Digitized Streams
7.6 – Problems with the digitized streams
7.7 – Digitized streams with corrections
9.1 – Loading shapefiles into PostGIS using SPIT
9.2 – Creating a new PostGIS connection in QGIS
9.3 – List of available PostGIS layers
9.4 – PostGIS query builder in QGIS
9.5 – PostGIS layers created with the query builder
9.6 – PostGIS connect dialog box in uDig
10.1 – Digitizing a plat
10.2 – The QGIS Delimited Text plugin
10.3 – Earthquakes rendered in QGIS by magnitude
10.4 – GPS plugin in QGIS
10.5 – Track and waypoint loaded from GPS unit
10.6 – Uploading to the GPS
10.7 – Georeferencing an image with QGIS
10.8 – Transformation Settings for Georeferencing an Image with QGIS
12.1 – Results of line-of-sight analysis in GRASS
12.2 – Raising sea level by 100 meters
12.3 – Hillshade with no exaggeration (left) and 4X exaggeration (right)
12.4 – Colored shaded relief map created with GRASS
12.5 – Merged GTOPO30 DEM
12.6 – Overlapping collars on DRGs
12.7 – Seamless display of clipped DRGs
12.8 – Rivers and the quadrangle for clipping
12.9 – Rivers clipped to a quadrangle boundary
13.1 – Hemisphere view of Earth created with GMT
13.2 – Globe centered on 180/65
13.3 – Alaska coastline generated with GMT
13.4 – Volcanoes plotted on a Robinson projection using GMT
13.5 – Alaska derived from the world mosaic
13.6 – Alaska mosaic warped to Alaska Albers projection
13.7 – VRT raster over the parcel shapefile
14.1 – The GRASS Plugin Toolbar
14.2 – Selecting a GRASS mapset in QGIS
14.3 – The GRASS tools in QGIS
14.4 – The GRASS Toolbox Ready to Run r.composite
14.5 – GRASS edit tools in QGIS
14.6 – Adding attributes to a GRASS feature
14.7 – Adding columns to the new GRASS map table
14.8 – Editing the attributes of an existing feature
14.9 – Completed city map with water wells
14.10 – GRASS browser in QGIS
14.11 – Buffer module ready to buffer eagle nest locations
14.12 – Buffered eagle nests created with GRASS and QGIS
14.13 – Roads buffered using GRASS in QGIS
14.14 – Result of each type of vector overlay operation
14.15 – Timber stands and stream buffers
14.16 – Eligible logging areas after vector subtraction
14.17 – Setting up to contour a DEM
14.18 – Result of contouring the DEM
14.19 – Mapcalc model for converting DEM from meters to feet
15.1 – Changing the window title with Python
15.2 – Installing the Plugin Builder
15.3 – Plugin Builder Ready to Generate the Zoom to Point Plugin
15.4 – Results of Generating the ZoomToPoint Plugin
15.5 – Plugin dialog box in Qt Designer
15.6 – ZoomToPoint plugin in use
15.7 – Volcanoes shapefile created with Python script
16.1 – Applications grouped by underlying programming language
18.1 – GRASS database selection/creation dialog box
18.2 – Choosing the WGS 84 projection for the GRASS location
18.3 – Default region settings for a WGS 84 world location
18.4 – GRASS start-up form
18.5 – GRASS location parameters
18.6 – GRASS location and mapset created and ready to use
18.7 – World mosaic in GRASS
18.8 – GRASS thematic map showing world population
18.9 – Adding a Column to a GRASS Vector Map
18.10 – Results of digitizing lakes in GRASS
19.1 – Metadata for the world_borders layer
19.2 – QGIS Geospatial Bookmarks dialog box
19.3 – QGIS Plugin Manager