Training Courses

Run by professionals with many years experience in using lidar data for historic landscape analysis, this course covers essential concepts needed to integrate lidar data into your workflows. Through a series of presentations, practical guidance and hands on sessions this course will explore how to access, prepare, and manipulate digital lidar data. We’ll be covering current best practise for visualising the data as well as lots of practical exercises, because we believe that learning by doing is best. In addition to the ‘hands on’ practicals, there will be plenty of opportunity for questions and group discussion during the course of the day.

Download our course information sheet for full details of the course aims and learning objectives.

The course is £200 per participant, including lunch and refreshments. Paypal payment via our website preferred but payment via invoice can be arranged.

Numbers are limited to 8 places so pre-booking is essential and bookings close two weeks before the course date (or earlier if all spaces are filled). If you find that you can’t attend we will refund the cost of the course minus an administrative fee of £30 until noon 14 days prior to the course date. Refunds will not be made after this point, but transferring your place to another individual or credit for a future course will be considered where possible.

On day one you’ll get to grips with the Environment Agency data through presentations and hands-on tutorials. On day two, we will explore a landscape within 1 hour of Swindon and make field observations of a range of features identified in the lidar data processed on day one. This greatly enhances the interpretation of the data, leading to improved understanding of what can (and cannot) be identified using lidar. There will be lots of opportunity to discuss ideas and issues faced when combining remote data and field observations.

Download our course information sheet for full details of the course aims and learning objectives.

The course is £400 per participant, including lunch, refreshments and travel to site on day two. Paypal payment via our website preferred but payment via invoice can be arranged.

Numbers are limited to 8 places so pre-booking is essential and bookings close two weeks before the course date (or earlier if all spaces are filled). If you find that you can’t attend we will refund the cost of the course minus an administrative fee of £30 until noon 14 days prior to the course date. Refunds will not be made after this point, but transferring your place to another individual or credit for a future course will be considered where possible.

Over two days we’ll cover the following topics in a series of presentations and practical sessions:

• Introduction to the point cloud – formats and attributes
• Viewing and assessing the quality of point cloud data
• Classifying the point cloud
• Generating terrain and intensity raster
• Generating mask layers
• Viewing the point-cloud with LAStools
• Advanced raster processing in QGIS
• Commissioning lidar survey
• 3D visualisations to share with colleagues and clients

Download our course information sheet for full details of the course aims and learning objectives.

The course is £600 per participant, including lunch and refreshments. Paypal payment via our website preferred but payment via invoice can be arranged.

Numbers are limited to 8 places so pre-booking is essential and bookings close two weeks before the course date (or earlier if all spaces are filled). If you find that you can’t attend we will refund the cost of the course minus an administrative fee of £30 until noon 14 days prior to the course date. Refunds will not be made after this point, but transferring your place to another individual or credit for a future course will be considered where possible.

Our one day course will get you set up with all the basics so that you can use QGIS for your work or research. Run by historic environment professionals with over a decade of experience in a variety of GIS applications, this course covers essential concepts needed to understand and use QGIS.

Our one day course will get you set up with all the basics so that you can use QGIS for your work or research. Run by historic environment professionals with over a decade of experience in a variety of GIS applications, this course covers essential concepts needed to understand and use QGIS.

Through practical guidance and hands on sessions this course will cover the following topics:

• Setting up your GIS project
• Sourcing and importing different types of data
• Georeferencing images
• Digitising features to a shapefile
• Styles and labelling
• Saving and printing maps for publication
• Finding help and further resources

Download our course information sheet for full details of the course aims and learning objectives.

The course is £200 per participant, including lunch and refreshments. Paypal payment via our website preferred but payment via invoice can be arranged.

Numbers are limited to 8 places so pre-booking is essential and bookings close two weeks before the course date (or earlier if all spaces are filled). If you find that you can’t attend we will refund the cost of the course minus an administrative fee of £30 until noon 14 days prior to the course date. Refunds will not be made after this point, but transferring your place to another individual or credit for a future course will be considered where possible.