QGIS - Lesson 2: Exploring Data at the Regional Scale

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Identifying Demographic and Physical Characteristics of Urban Areas

In this module, you will perform many common GIS analytical functions such as proximity and overlay analysis in order to identify which cities are located at a lower elevation and close to the coast.  You will work with elevation, cities, downscaled climate model output in netCDF format and coastline data.  

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NOTE: this exercise was developed using QGIS 2.0.  Some steps may a bit different in later versions of the software.

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