Here is the first lesson of the GDAL/OGR Beginners Tutorial. From this course you will be able to get more details about one of the popular and useful software libraries – GDAL and another useful library OGR Simple Features Library. This tutorial is designed for both GIS specialist and programmer, developer, or if you have no preliminary experience with geospatial data and digital methods to work with it, thus, this lesson is going to introduce you with the use of GDAL/OGR to handle different geospatial data formats and perform different tasks with them.

Within this course, you will be able to comprehend how to install and configure GDAL/OGR, use the toolbox of the command line and use the Python programs for further analysis. We similarly lead you through how to obtain data for geospatial analysis, how to read and write such data in the format, how one can transform the said data, and of course, perform the analysis properly. After this tutorial, you should be familiar with GDAL/OGR and must be able to implement this framework for solving own geospatial problems, to manipulate with your spatial data and perform needed geoprocessing operations on it. Greetings to this way of exploring all possibilities of GDAL / OGR and enhancing the opportunities of a raster GIS system.