GIS @ Nelen & Schuurmans – @ Nelen & Schuurmans – @



GIS @ Nelen & Schuurmans – @ Nelen & Schuurmans – @

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wur-nens

presentation at Wageningen University & Research for Geo-Information students

On Github fritzvd / wur-nens

GIS

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Nelen & Schuurmans

Fritz van Deventer

i am fritz. i make things. mostly music (@cheesesofmexico) and computer stuff (@fritzvd) e.g. with javascript.

From MSc to Job in IT

Nelen & Schuurmans

advisors, gis, it

GIS at water consultancy?

  • Everything we do is spatial
  • Die-hard GIS ❰ ❱ Cloud solutions
  • NumPy / GDAL, PostGIS, Python, python python. Javascript. QGIS

Why Geoscripting?

  • Reproducable results
  • Quick and dirty analysis
  • Automation of all da tings
  • We don't like RSI
  • Fun.

example time

Nationale Regen Radar (NRR)

national shower radar (NRR)

NRR

  • Comparing cokriging, kriging and IDW
  • in R in Python
  • automated
  • open source
After trial and error part, getting good results etc. Implementing

3Di

3Di

  • Flood simulation
  • 10,000 times faster than SOBEK
  • Resolution is as good as the DEM
  • Bizar technical challenge

What would you need?

Classic GIS

  • ArcGIS/QGIS R/Rstudio wha-evah
  • local / remote you are the artist
  • End product is 'static'

GIS at Nelen & Schuurmans

python, gdal, r, javascript, servers, wms etc.

Play with some data

http://fritzvd.com/turf-example

Final remarks

Learn some Python/JavaScript
Teach yourself about Databases
Try out Linux

Questions?

http://fritzvd.com/wur-nens/