Welcome to Geospatial Developers Mentorship Program

About this programme

The main objective of this program is to mentor colleagues and friends in the geospatial world in the use of some open source tools for the development of geoportals .

Tools

I will encourage everyone to read around the following below if you have no knownledge on them .However, you should know that knowledge and prior experience in GIS , Remote Sensing and the tools below,will be an advantege .

• QGIS
• Google Earth Engine (GEE)
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Leaflet JS
• Geoserver
• Postgresql/Postgis
• Python
• Node Js
• Django / GeoDjango
• GeoPandas
• Geemap
• Git Hub Account

Other Resources

• HTML for Absolute Beginners
• HTML and CSS Tutorial - Create a Website for Beginners
• QGIS tutorial
• Python-Cookbook
• Git & GitHub Tutorial

Sign-up for Google Earth Engine

• If you already have a Google Earth Engine account, you can skip this step.
• Visit https://signup.earthengine.google.com/ and sign-up with your Google account. You can use your existing gmail account to sign-up. It usually takes 1-2 days for approval. Hence do this step as soon as possible.

Tips to ensure smooth sign-up process:

• Use Google Chrome browser.
• When signing up for Earth Engine, please log out of all Google accounts and ensure you are logged into only 1 account which you want associated with Earth Engine.

Platform

All interactions will take place on Telegram

Prerequisites

• GitHub account
• Fundamental understanding of basic remote sensing and GIS
• Prior understanding of the basic concepts of programming is not required but may be helpful
• Installation of the above tools mentioned
• Google Earth Engine Account
• Install any text editor of your choice . Sublime Text or VScode is recommended .

📌 Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduction to QGIS and Postgres Postgis

Module 2 - Introduction Web devlopment ( Html,CSS,JS)

Module 3 - Introduction to Map libraries(leaflet js ,Openlayers js)

Module 4 - Introduction Google Earth Engine

Module 5 - Introduction to Geoserver

Module 6 - Building your first Geoportal

Module 7 - Project Work

Module 8 - React and Django Rest Framework

📌 Bonus Course for 50 Mentees

• Introduction Python
• Using Google Earth Engine Python Api (geemap)
• Django / GeoDjango crash course
• Build an Advanced Geoportal with Django/GeoDjango
• Setting up your own Geoserver in production
• Setting up your own GeoNetwork in production
• Building your own Data collector and Realtime Dashboards

📌 Other programme Coming Up Soon

• Becoming a Data scientist / Data Analyst
• Mastering Google Earth Engine
• Mastering Geospatial Data Science with Python:GeoPandas
• Python GUI Development