QGreenland

A free mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration.
https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland

Category: Cryosphere
Sub Category: Glacier and Ice Sheets

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gis greenland qgis

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Source code for generating the QGreenland package hosted at https://qgreenland.org/

README.md

QGreenland

NSF-1928393
NSF-1928393
DOI
DOI

This repository is responsible for the code and configuration for creating the
QGreenland Core zip package. To download the package and learn more about
QGreenland, visit our our website.

For more detailed information about using the QGreenland Core zip package and on
how to contribute to QGreenland, see our
Documentation

🎉 QGreenland v3 has been released! Please visit our
website to download it now! Note
that an official annoucement and more exciting news is planned for early
September. Subscribe to the QGreenland newsletter
to learn more!

A Free GIS package for Greenland

QGreenland example images

QGreenland is a free mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused
research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration. It combines key datasets
into a unified, all-in-one GIS analysis and visualization environment for
offline and online use.

An international Editorial Board and Project Collaborators connects the
QGreenland Team to data and user communities.

Learn more about What is
QGreenland?

Usage

For contributors

Those wishing to utilize the qgreenland code to create their own QGreenland
data package should see the contributor How to build QGreenland
Core

guide.

For users of the QGreenland Core data package

See our Get started with QGreenland
Core

tutorial!

What is inside the QGreenland Core data package zip file?

At the root of the zip file, you will find useful files such as a
UserGuide.pdf, the qgreenland.qgs QGIS project file and scientific
discipline-specific directories containing data (GeoTIFFs and GeoPackages).

For more detailed information, see our documentation on the QGreenland Core
Download
Package
.

Educational resources

We keep the QGreenland official website up-to-date with links to helpful
educational resources, including our own QGreenland User Guide.

Troubleshooting

See our user troubleshooting guide
here.

Contributing

See our discusson page on
contributing

to get started!

Contributor documentation contains technical instructions about running the
QGreenland pipeline code, but we also strive to describe everything clearly.
Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for any user of QGreenland to
contribute to the project, so please do not be deterred from sharing your ideas.

If you have an idea for a new feature or have a bug to report, please submit an
Issue.

If all else fails, please email us!

Acknowledgements

Please see our
acknowledgements
for our best effort to acknowledge all of the giants upon whose shoulders we stand.

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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title: "QGreenland"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.4533271"
abstract: "This software generates the QGreenland data package for QGIS."
contact:
  - name: "The QGreenland Team"
    email: "qgreenland.info@gmail.com"
  - name: "The QGreenland community" 
    website: "https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland/discussions"
type: "software"
license: "MIT"
keywords:
  - "GIS"
  - "QGIS"
  - "Python"
  - "education"
  - "Greenland"

url: "https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland"
repository-code: "https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland"

version: "4.0.0alpha4"
date-released: "2026-04-01"

authors:
  - family-names: "Stafford"
    given-names: "Trey"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5510-0055"
    website: "https://github.com/trey-stafford"
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  - family-names: "Marowitz"
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  - family-names: "Held"
    given-names: "Rikki"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8348-4945"
  - family-names: "Dryák-Vallies"
    given-names: "Mariama"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4292-0895"
  - family-names: "McGhee"
    given-names: "Sarah"
  - family-names: "Fisher"
    given-names: "Matt"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3260-5445"
    website: "https://github.com/mfisher87"

references:
- type: "grant"
  title: "QGreenland-Net: Open, connected data infrastructure for Greenland-focused geoscience, and beyond"
  institution:
    name: "National Science Foundation"
  number: "2324765"
  authors:
    - family-names: "Moon"
      given-names: "Twila"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-7008"
- type: "grant"
  title: "QGreenland-Net: Open, connected data infrastructure for Greenland-focused geoscience, and beyond"
  institution:
    name: "National Science Foundation"
  number: "2324766"
  authors:
    - family-names: "Jones"
      given-names: "Matt"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738"
- type: "grant"
  title: "QGreenland: Enabling Science through GIS"
  institution:
    name: "National Science Foundation"
  number: "1928393"
  notes: "We acknowledge Allen Pope for his contributions to authoring the proposal that led to this grant."
  authors:
    - family-names: "Moon"
      given-names: "Twila"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-7008"

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