Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x
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About the reviewers

 

Giuseppe De Marco, a Ferentino based agricultural engineer, has a Bachelor's in agriculture from the University of Pisa. He started programming at an early age. He developed deep interests in geography and GIS during his bachelor’s. He then got introduced to GRASS and QGIS while working with Eris commercial products. Since QGIS 1.7.4, he has been developing plugins for it, In 2008, he partnered with his 2 colleagues and started Pienocampo (open field), a website that hosts plugins made by him which are also hosted on OGIS official repository. He likes studying geography, surveying, tree risk assessment, landscaping, bioengineering, and farm consulting. He also likes imparting knowledge on how to use QGIs and other open source software.

Chima Obi is the lead geospatial analyst at AGERPoint Inc. He has over 4 years of experience as a geospatial analyst. His specialty includes processing LIDAR data and feature extraction from raster/imagery data utilizing Python and R programing, as well as exploring other open source geospatial tools. He got his Bachelors in soil science from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria in 2010. He moved to the United States where he obtained his master’s degree in environmental science and got a certification in Geospatial information systems in 2016.
Prior to working at AGERPoint, he worked as a geospatial analyst at West Virginia District of Highways in 2015 and 2016.

I would like to express my gratitude to my friends and family, and most importantly to my wife, for their wonderful encouragement and support. Also, my biggest thanks go to Packt Publishing for choosing me to be a part of this awesome book review.