Georeferencing Course
This course equips participants with essential georeferencing techniques for GIS applications, focusing on accuracy in challenging environments like mountainous terrain. Through hands-on exercises in QGIS, ArcGIS, and GDAL, learners will master coordinate systems, ground control points, error assessment, and creating reliable landslide inventories with proper documentation and quality assurance.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Georeferencing Course gives you practical skills to prepare imagery and scanned maps, choose suitable coordinate systems, and select accurate ground control points in complex terrain. Learn to apply transformations in QGIS, ArcGIS, and GDAL, assess RMSE and residuals, manage spatial error, and build reliable landslide inventories with clear metadata, QA/QC workflows, and well-documented uncertainty.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Professional georeferencing: align maps, imagery and GPS data with confidence.
- GCP selection mastery: pick, digitize and validate robust control points fast.
- 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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