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QRiS Quickstart: Analysis - Compare a Riverscape Through Time

About 15 minutes | Beginner | No GIS analysis experience required

In this quickstart, you will explore a real restoration monitoring project on the North Fork Sprague River in Oregon. You will compare observations collected through time, create a simple analysis, calculate a riverscape metric, and graph how that metric changes.

By the end, you'll have used a core QRiS workflow for analysis: Data Capture Events → Sample Frames → Metrics → Analysis.

Before You Begin

Set up these items before starting the 15-minute tutorial:

  1. Install QGIS and the latest QRiS plugin.
  2. Open the Bailey Flat collection in the Riverscapes Data Exchange.
  3. Download Bailey Flat without Imagery
  4. Extract the downloaded zip file to an easy-to-find folder on your computer.