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20-Apr-2014
Russian Federation election committee data from official sources 
Аdministrative division boundaries of Moscow 
Geodetic systems of spatial coordinates 
Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS on VPS Linux 
GraphHopper deployment as a Web service for building routes 
Compute the area of a polygon on the sphere and on ellipsoid 
Solving problems on the sphere: inverse position computation 
Solving problems on the sphere: common survey computation 
Solving problems on the sphere: angular resection 
Solving problems on the sphere: linear-resection
18-Feb-2014
UIK GEO - open dataset on voting stations locations in Russia 
Open geodata on architectural heritage of Moscow 
Animated 3D symbols in ArcScene 
Unification of extent and resolution of rasters in QGIS 
GDAL and cyrrilcs in Windows filenames 
Working with WMS and WFS in QGIS 
Basic geomorphological parameters: theory 
Pansharpenning in ERDAS 
Multitemporal layers in GeoMixer WEB-GIS 
Main geodata 
Calling GRASS GIS from Python script
3-Nov-2013
Georeferencing raster topographic maps with GIS Karta 2008 
Create your own styles of area fills in MapInfo 
Unique values calculation of raster pixels with SEXTANTE QGIS 
Creating a map of boundaries of electoral commissions in Moscow with open data 
MOLUSCE - changes analysis in land cover 
Gentle Introduction to GIS (Russian translation) 
Map meeting report obout location clarification of voiting stations (August 24, 2013)
What awaits us on the government open geodata portals
Exporting new regions data to UIC GEO project
17-Aug-2013
Creating a stand-alone mapping application based on image without georeference 
Integration TMS-caching service in your own application 
Primary processing of SRTM data in SAGA GIS 
Creating a simple HTTP-publishing service for vector data 
Description of mobile GIS "NextGIS Mobile" 
Precinct election commission Hackaton results (July 13)
Community Environmental GIS Community Conference (28-29 September 2013) 
Report of Geomorphometry Workshop with Victor Olaya (July 24) 
7-Jun-2013
Basics of dynamic TMS services 
Service for backing up and monitoring of Moscow city open data portal 
Working with vector data using SAGA GIS 
Mapfeatureserver as a replacement for ArcGIS Server
Open geodata layer of children's institutions (orphanages) 
26-Apr-2013
Making delimitation plan with QGIS 
Introduction to RSAGA 
Tile grids configuration basics 
Hill shading and colour DEM combination with GDAL 
Using Kosmosnimki Express Service through QGIS 
Suomi NPP: brief description 
Tile Map Service Specification
30-Mar-2013
World map with an arbitrary central meridian in MapInfo 
Brief Introduction to MaxEnt 
Research of strong squalls and tornadoes consequences in the Perm region using remote sensing data 
Conformal transformation 
Adding a local coordinate system in GIS
1-Mar-2013
Site parsing with Scrapy framework 
Vector layer editing with Geomixer 
Supervised image classification with QGIS and GRASS 
GeoMixer WEB-GIS: quick review 
Data from Moscow open data portal 
12-Jan-2013
Creating multi-level tiles from QGIS project with QTiles 
Rendering vector data with Mapnik without direct access to the storage 
Geoprocessing with SEXTANTE for QGIS 
Remote sensing Corona data - description and access 
Catalog of Declass (Corona) data 
Georeferencing topographic maps in SAGA
21-Oct-2012
Description of and preprocessed World Fire Atlas data 
Converting Mapnik XML to SLD using mapnik2geotools 
GDAL tools cheatsheet 
Transforming lat-long to meters + general approaches using MapInfo 
Batch geocoding in QGIS 
Brief description of GRASS Graphical Modeler
23-Sep-2012
Working with georeferenced photos in QGIS using Geotag and import photos 
Introduction to TileMill 
UTFGrid: raster tiles with attributes 
Connecting to MS SQL Server from QGIS running in Linux 
Building fail-safe network storage for GIS data
26-Aug-2012
Opendata on boundaries of federal level protected areas of Russia 
Open desktop GIS SAGA - general overview 
Updated database with fire hotspots 
Getting to know Web Feature Service
28-Jul-2012
GIS-Lab survey results (2012) 
Automatic cloud assessment with ACCA algorithm in QGIS 
Automatic cloud assessment algorithm - ACCA 
Adaptive smoothing for noisy DEMs 
Assessment of the modern fires dynamics in arid ecosystems using remote sensing data: the case of Chernye Zemli
1-Jul-2012
Open GIS discussion at GIS-Forum in Kazan, 2012 
Generating quick simple reports using Reporter for QGIS 
Using custom events in OpenLayers 
Changing vertex and virtual nodes styles in OpenLayers
13-May-2012
Building GDAL 1.9.0 with Visual Studio 2010 
How to create regular grids in QGIS 
Future trends in geospatial information management 
Creatubg TINs with structure lines in GRASS GIS
1-Apr-2012
Calculating surface areas accounting for the relief in GRASS GIS 
An example on using openModeller Desktop for projecting for new conditions 
Description of request-files of openModeller 
Command-line tools of OpenModeller 
Using WMSGetFeatureInfo control in OpenLayers 
Creating 3D-model using GIS Karta 2008
10-Mar-2012
Installing QGIS plugins 
Creating point layer from delimited data in QGIS 
Orthorectification of OrbView-3 data using GDAL 
Orthorectification of remote sensing data using RPC 
Orthorectification of remote sensing data in wxGIS 
Voting stations location from webvybory 2012 
Calculating object's main geometric properties in QGIS 
19-Feb-2012
GIS for Protected Areas: list of problems 
QGIS network analysis library: desription and examples 
Assessing consequences 2010 forest fires in Perm region 
Symbols library for QGIS 
ASCIIGRID format (with examples) 
FieldPyculator - field calculator with Python expressions support for QGIS 
15-Jan-2012
FireReporter: sending wildfire reports from the mobile application 
An example of image georeferencing using world-файла 
Detecting burned areas in Russia, 2010: results of IKI RAS 
Electoral data of Moscow 
Displacement of points with the same coordinates, Python/OGR 
Zonal statistics using ZonalStats for QGIS 
Free USGS Orbview-3 data catalog
Wildfires monitoring project
Mapping voting districts locations of Moscow ![]()
29-Oct-2011
OpenStreetMap extracts of centers of municipal regions in shape-format 
Working with metadata using Metatools for QGIS 
Detecting burned areas in south-west Primorie in 1996-2010: results of TIGIS 
Satellite data - another tool to make government transparent 
Working with Ozi Explorer rasters in QGIS 
8-Aug-2011
Generalized data on administrative division of Russia 
Classification of raster data using DTclassifier in QGIS 
Getting raster values at points using GDAL/OGR 
GeoKettle.First steps 
Simplest method to get number of pixels of certain color 
Thermal anomalies data MOD14: how to get 
5-Jul-2011
Running MOD14 algorithm and data extraction 
Compilation of MOD14_SPA under Windows and Linux 
Getting free Landsat TM,ETM+ image via Glovis 
How to stack and vizualize Landsat image from separate bands in QGIS 
How to find and create a point with known coordinates in QGIS 
Getting started with Polymaps 
Recalculating coordinates between coordinate systems with PHOTOMOD GeoCalculator
New source of free ASTER data 
OpenStreetMap data in XML and PBF formats
Russian fire monitoring papers database 
5-Jun-2011
Creating Python script for GRASS GIS 
Building TinyOWS with Visual C++ Express Edition 2008 and OSGeo4W 
Complex symbology in QGIS: "lock" 
Creating a package for OSGeo4W 
Getting started with openModeller
6-May-2011
Compiling QGIS with debug in Visual C++ Express Edition 2008 or QtCreator 
Burned areas recognition using decision trees and OpenCV 
Interactive raster transparency management in QGIS 
Creating cloud shadow masks using remote sensing data in GRASS GIS 
Detection of burned areas of Russia in 2010: results of Greenpeace Russia 
3-Apr-2011
GeOOo: map of administrative regions of Russia in OpenOffice 
Thermal anomalies data MOD14A1: description and sources 
Burned areas data MCD45: description and sources 
How to import MOD14A1 data in shape-format 
21-Mar-2011
How to create and use user functions in PostGIS 
Adding layers list control in PyQGIS application 
Monitoring of natural fires using FIRMS
Data delivery OWS services
23-Feb-2011
WMS servers and data querying 
Polygon clipping and coordinates capture with AGETools in ArcGIS 
Neural networks analysis in GRASS GIS and R
Russian administrative units data based on OpenStreetMap
Statistical data analysis in R 
28-Jan-2011
Raster algebra in QGIS using RasterCalc 
Installing Easy Trace 7.99 PRO FREE under Linux 
Layerstacking multispectral data in Image Media Center Viewer 
Classification of raster data using decision trees and R 
Finding shortest route using Road graph plugin for QGIS 
CSWClient for QGIS 
Converting user maps from Yandex.Мои Карты in shape-format
Environmental mapping using satellite data 
Feasibility study on the use of medium resolution data 
Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R 
The Geospatial Revolution Project 
Russian QGIS 1.6.0 manual 
Russian GeoJSON specification 
Zarutskaya I.P. Mapping topography on hypsometric maps 
14-Oct-2010
Importing GIS-LAB spectral library in ENVI 
Spectral libraries - data sources on spectra 
Remote sensing data classification using support vectors machines and imageSVM 
Data analysis using GRASS GIS and R
Natural objects spectra database 
13-Sep-2010
Replacing raster values with GDAL/Numpy 
Ready-to-use QGIS projects on OSM for countries and regions 
Basic strategies for preparation of 3D cities models 
Create and use raster maps on PDA using MapTiler and GpsVP 
13-Jun-2010
Changing encoding of DBF file 
Converting from Shape format to OSM XML with field mapping using ogr2osm 
Official OKATO classifier 
Processing geodata using Python and ArcGIS 
Raster operation in QGIS using GdalTools
Change in OSM statistics by regions 
9-May-2010
Working with raster data using GDAL and Python 
Working with vector data using OGR and Python 
Using GetFeatureInfo queries for MapServer-based WMS service
Searching mapfeatures in OpenLayers 
First steps in GRASS using its graphic user interface 
Creating Landsat metadata catalog from Glovis data 
27-Mar-2010
Import VMap1 data with Mapinfo 
Simplify linear objects with DPSimplify for QGIS 
Create world-files for raster tiles mosaic 
Landsat/ETM+ 2000 data as mosaics 
Meteorological stations data source for Russia 
Blue Marble Next Generation data 
7-Feb-2010
Opensource desktop GIS: current situation 
Converting dbf to csv 
Error matrix and calculation of thematic maps accuracy measures 
Geographic referencing in QGIS: case study of georeferencing using nomenclature grid 
Create point layer from text in QGIS 
22-Nov-2009
Daily OpenStreetMap updates for regions of Russia in shape format and OSM XML 
Geosample: Open geodata dataset for different GIS software 
Osmosis performance in clipping regions of Russia 
POLY-files and their creation using QGIS
Elevation in SAGA GIS: Conquering Saint-Helens 
Servlets and Tomcat
15-Oct-2009
Выделение растровых контуров объектов в GRASS 
Geolink in Mapinfo 
Editing OpenStreetMap data with JOSM 
Global Biodiversity Information Facility – GBIF. Intro.
Where are topological errors in OpenStreetMap?
OpenGIS® Implementation Specification for Geographic information - Simple feature access 
24-Sep-2009
Working with styles in GeoServer/GeoExt Styler 
Converting polygon shape-files in Arcinfo coverages with cleaning topological errors 
Organizational and legislative basis for creating maps for open publication in digital (including Internet) and hard copies 
Building QGIS using Visual C++ Express Edition 2008 and OSGeo4W components 
Using Levenshtein metric for text analogs search 
Obtaining field statistics using Statist/QGIS
23-Aug-2009
SUAS MapServer overview 
Building PostgreSQL + PostGIS + WKT Raster under Windows 
Building GDAL using Visual C++ Express Edition 2008 
Coordinate systems transformations - parameters sets 
Converting data from .csv to .shp and back using OGR 
28-Jul-2009
Install and set up of GeoWebCache 
Install and set up of GeoJazzy WMSTileCache 
General description of ASTER GDEM 
WIST for remote sensing data selection and aqcuisition 
Prepare GPSBabel and JOSM before starting with OSM 
27-May-2009
Examples of using ogr2ogr
GeoNames database overview 
GNS database overview 
MapWindow GIS overview 
Regression normalization of remote sensing data using R 
Creating stereo DEMs using stereo-pairs in ERDAS IMAGINE 
Russian-language database on settlements based on VMap0 
13-Apr-2009
Install QGIS/GRASS using OSGeo4W 
PostGIS - access regulation on objects level 
Adding attributes from polygons to point shape-file in ArcGIS 
Real estate cadaster - source of populated places names 
Ezhiki v tumane
VMap0 populated places translation
gvSIG 1.1 User's manual in Russian 
19-Feb-2009
Ways to visualize geodata using OpenLayers 
Exporting HDF and HDF-EOS data using hdp 
Developing simple python plugin for QGIS 
How to create and work with plugin repository in QGIS 
Automatic update of QGIS repository via SVN 
Batch merging shapefiles with MergeShapes/OGR 
Feature Data Objects - toolkit for accessing geodata 
11-Jan-2009
Tile scheme for MODIS products level 2G, 3, and 4 
Batch processing of ETM+ data using Layerstack/ERDAS 
Affine transformations - math 
VMap1 - getting data 
Using WMS MapServer in Google Maps
MapServer 5.x tutorial translation 
8-Dec-2008
Opening features from QGIS to Google Maps/Earth 
Create .NET application using GDAL/OGR: loading layer 
Visualizing PostGIS data in MapServer 
Find distances to 10 nearest points in Arcview GIS 
Role of PostGIS/PostreSQL among spatial RDMS 
Export mif/mid to PostgreSQL/PostGIS 
3 ноября 2008
Installing PostgreSQL/PostGIS for Windows 
Hardware selection and start working with ArcPad 
Connecting to MS Access from ArcGIS 9.x 
PostGIS for beginners 
Installing QGIS for Linux
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