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Geospatial Analysis with SQL

You're reading from   Geospatial Analysis with SQL A hands-on guide to performing geospatial analysis by unlocking the syntax of spatial SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835083147
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Geospatial Analytics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Fundamentals of Geospatial Analytics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework for SQL Spatial Data Science – Geometry Versus Geography 4. Chapter 3: Analyzing and Understanding Spatial Algorithms 5. Chapter 4: An Overview of Spatial Statistics 6. Section 2: SQL for Spatial Analytics
7. Chapter 5: Using SQL Functions – Spatial and Non-Spatial 8. Chapter 6: Building SQL Queries Visually in a Graphical Query Builder 9. Chapter 7: Exploring PostGIS for Geographic Analysis 10. Chapter 8: Integrating SQL with QGIS 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating SQL with QGIS

Earlier chapters focusing on SQL and geospatial analysis have expanded your geospatial vocabulary and introduced SQL. You now have access to a host of new tools to explore location intelligence. This final chapter will serve as a segue into an open source workflow for additional learning and insights. The ability to access large datasets and explore them with the expanded functionality of plugins within the QGIS platform, combined with PostGIS and the dynamic spatial query language, is addressed with a higher level of acuity. I suggest downloading the Long-Term Release (LTR) for the most stable QGIS version: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html.

In this chapter, you will learn to explore SQL queries within DB Manager in QGIS and you will also learn how to import and configure raster datasets along with calculating raster functions.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the SQL query builder in...
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