QGIS

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Description

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Quantum GIS is an open source Geographic Information System that supports most geospatial vector and raster file types and database formats.

Required Modules

Serial

  • qgis

System Variables

  • HPC_{{#uppercase:qgis}}_DIR - installation directory

Additional Information

This is a GUI software. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.rc.ufl.edu/doc/GUI_Programs

Basic usage:

module load gui
launch_gui_session -e qgis

Connect with xpra locally using the xpra command

xpra attach ssh:jdoe@i111a-s222.rc.ufl.edu:3713



Citation

If you publish research that uses qgis you have to cite it as follows:

https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/QGIS_Citation_Repository