Open access research papers:
Energy and Wetlands Research @ CES, IISc, Bangalore http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/
ENVironmental Information System [ENVIS], CES, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/foss/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=46
List of Relevant GIS Journals - Click here
Open access research data:
OpenStreetMaps (OSM): https://www.openstreetmap.org/
SLEUTH: Project Gigalopolis http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/gig/index.html
Karnataka-GIS, Admin Boundaries and maps: https://kgis.ksrsac.in/kgis/downloads.aspx
Open access research software/website/courses:
Alternative photoshop : https://www.gimp.org/ and https://inkscape.org/en/
Artificial Intelligence (AI): http://www.alicebot.org/ and https://deeplearning4j.org/
Cygwin: https://www.cygwin.com/
ESRI ArcGIS Map Viewer: Click here
Free GIS Data: http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/ (WARNING!! - Authenticity of data not verified)
Google Earth: https://earth.google.com/web/
Google Earth Engine: https://earthengine.google.com/ FAO UN GEE Manual Click here End to end GEE Hands on Click here
GrassGIS: https://grass.osgeo.org/
Indian Datasets: India water resource information https://indiawris.gov.in Rainfall (IMD) https://mausam.imd.gov.in/ Geomorphology and Geology https://bhukosh.gsi.gov.in Soil data https://nbsslup.icar.gov.in/
LULC-10m-Data (free) via ESRI ARCGIS: Click here
Math and Stats: http://www.sagemath.org/ and R https://www.r-project.org/
NASA SEDAC - https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4
Open Course Ware - Spatial Thoughts: https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/index.html
Open Source Geospatial data via Geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/india.html (WARNING!! - Authenticity of data not verified)
Open Source Geospatial data via DIVA-GIS: https://www.diva-gis.org/ (WARNING!! - Authenticity of data not verified)
QGIS Tutorials and Tips: https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/index.html
Satellite data download (free): USGS Earth Explorer https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ NASA EO Data https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/ SENTINEL Data https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home EOS Land viewer https://eos.com/products/landviewer/ DEM's https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/
Toposheet or Topographic Maps download (free, only for India): https://onlinemaps.surveyofindia.gov.in/FreeMapSpecification.aspx
Website builder/Webmaster: https://wordpress.org/
Career Opportunities in Remote sensing and GIS:
Earthworks-jobs: http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/remotese.htm
TU-Delft opportunities: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/working-at-tu-delft/search-jobs/
Description:
Geographic Information Systems (NPTEL Certification Course)
Course Instructor: Dr. Bharath H Aithal, Assistant Professor, RCGSIDM, IITKGP
Hands-on session By Mr.Chandan and Mr.Prakash
Topics covered:
Introduction to QGIS, QGIS Plugins, Vector data import, Raster data import, Survey of India Toposheet downloading and georeferencing, Vector functions - clip, buffer, intersection, join, Raster functions - Interpolation, clip, terrain analysis, raster calculator, Satellite data download, Map Composition, Google earth, Introduction to R, Introduction to GEOSERVER.
Lecture Material: Week-10 , Week-11, Week-12.
Lecture Datasets: Vector Dataset, Raster Dataset
Landsat 8 Supervised Classification using QGIS
Talk about Virtual Reality Lab at IIT Kharagpur At Time- 05:28
Research Opportunities in Remote Sensing and GIS
IGARSS2020 -"Integration of GA and ABM to Visualize Sustainable Urban Growth"
FOSS4G Korea 2020 -"Workshop on: Urban growth modelling using Cellular Automata based SLEUTH"