[Qgis-us-user] New to QGIS and Spatial analysis

Tue Mar 15 09:22:34 PDT 2022

Cool!

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:14 PM Mike Seskin <
Seskin_Michael_X at solarturbines.com> wrote:

> Randy / Doug
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> Thanks for all the great info on imagery sources.  Ironically (Randy) you
> mentioned gas turbines, which happens to be connected to my whole reason
> for investigating GIS.  Therefore my imagery requirements are global since
> our engines our scattered throughout the world.  I’ll investigate some of
> the sources you provided, excluding the localized ones.
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> *Mike Seskin* *|* EQL
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> Email: seskin_michael_x at solarturbines.com
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> *From:* Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:10 AM
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> That's awesome.
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> Google imagery (assuming you're using QuickMapServices) is pushed through
> a service and I think those services are usually pretty locked down with
> licensing plus it's a service so it's just harder to deal with.
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> So I **think** you can purchase Google imagery - not sure of the cost.
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> Depending on where you are and what you're doing here's what I would do:
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> 1. Check with the local City/County and see if they have imagery. It will
> be probably 6 inch to 1 foot in resolution. There may be a charge or it may
> be free. Example:  Hamilton County TN has an image service that QGIS can
> use and they sell imagery.
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> 2. Check with the state you are in and see what they have. I would search
> for "State of Mike GIS Data" (with Mike being the state you're in) and see
> what pops up. Example: The state has an imagery service and they sell
> imagery to the general public and to counties. Go back to 1 and they
> (county) may give you what they purchased. Tn has free LIDAR data for
> download also.
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> 3. Federal is the next step - NAIP (1 meter). That's free and may be
> awesome for what you want or may not be.
> https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photography/imagery-programs/naip-imagery/
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> 4. Weird use cases that may have imagery in the area - like some utilities
> will fly their own imagery and have that available if you ask nice (I was a
> former Federal Utility Employee in Tennessee which had some gas turbines).
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> 5. Landsat will completely work but I think that may still be 30 meter
> pixel size - but it's free. There are some other satellite imagery that is
> free also - you're just trading resolution for cost.
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> 6. Planet labs sells imagery - but not sure of the cost on that on either.
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> Yeah - that's the hard part -  imagery. Software is easy - imagery makes
> my head hurt.
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> Randy
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> On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 10:10:35 AM EDT Mike Seskin wrote:
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> > Hi Randal - thanks very much for this high level overview, it's
> incredibly helpful for a beginner
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> > like me!
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> > I took some excellent earlier direction from Karsten who pointed me
> towards a solution using the
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> > graphical modeler - it seemed perfect until I ran it and encountered
> some inexplicable error with
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> > the Google satellite raster - that is until I read your reply, and now
> it makes sense!  What a
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> > bummer about the licensing  -- as you said the imagery is the kicker!
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> > Are my following imagery options correct?
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> >   1.  Purchase a license from Google
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> >   2.  Use landstat for free
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> > Thanks
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> > Mike Seskin | EQL
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> > Office: (858) 694-1851  |  Cell: (442) 245-1779
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> > Email: seskin_michael_x at solarturbines.com
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> > From: Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
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> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:53 AM
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> > Hey Mike - Welcome to the list.
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> > So the short answer is yes and the longer answer is Yes it's a little
> complicated but doable.
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> > For the explanation I''m going to completely ignore projections - that's
> a whole other discussion.
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> > If you had a point (like a tower) you could run the buffer tool and
> buffer it one mile. From there
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> > I think you would "clip by mask layer" and extract the image. You could
> save that as a geotiff or
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> > whatever you needed. Life would be good. (I say all that like you know
> where the tools are - look
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> > for processing at the top of QGIS - that gives you processing tools).
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> > The bigger problem is the imagery - you can't clip Google Satellite
> imagery and use that per the
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> > license from Google. So you would need another image source be it
> landsat or something local
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> > (maybe the county you're working in has imagery they would share).
> Imagery is a pain.
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> > Really - that's the kicker - the imagery. Get that and then there's the
> whole discussion on "get
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> > it in a local projection" and you're done - it's about three steps in
> QGIS to get what you want.
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> > It's completely doable! I dunno how much this has helped but you're on
> the right track.
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> > Commands:
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> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#qgisbuf
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> > Yell if you need anything!
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> > Randy
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> > On Monday, March 14, 2022 7:10:56 PM EDT Mike Seskin wrote:
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> > > Preamble:
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> > >   1.  I've been unsuccessfully searching for answers online for
> several days
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> > >   2.  I am new to spatial analysis and GIS, and therefore trying to
> figure out what it can and
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> > > cannot do
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> > > Question:
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> > > I recently installed QGIS in the hopes it can help me create satellite
> image files from a shape
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> > > file consisting of points.  I want to automatically define an area
> (for instance 1 square mile)
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> > > around each point and save the Google satellite image of each of the
> 1-square mile areas.  Is
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> > > this possible in QGIS?
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> > > Thanks
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> > > Mike Seskin | EQL
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> > > Office: (858) 694-1851  |  Cell: (442) 245-1779
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