Georeferencing Course
This course equips participants with essential georeferencing techniques for creating accurate spatial data in GIS environments, focusing on practical applications in challenging terrains like mountainous areas for landslide mapping and hazard assessment.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Georeferencing Course provides you with practical skills to prepare imagery and scanned maps, select appropriate coordinate systems, and choose accurate ground control points in complex terrain. Learn to apply transformations in QGIS, ArcGIS, and GDAL, evaluate RMSE and residuals, manage spatial error, and create reliable landslide inventories with clear metadata, QA/QC workflows, and well-documented uncertainty.
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Develop skills
- Professional georeferencing: align maps, imagery and GPS data with confidence.
- GCP selection mastery: pick, digitise and validate robust control points quickly.
- CRS and projection choice: select optimal systems for complex mountainous terrain.
- RMSE and error analysis: quantify, map and report positional uncertainty clearly.
- Landslide inventory workflow: build accurate, georeferenced hazard maps ready for GIS.
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