Hans van der Kwast

Hans van der Kwast has more than 20 years of experience with GIS and Remote Sensing in education and projects, offering consultancy, training and coaching in open source GIS. He is an active member in the QGIS community, a QGIS certified trainer, and board member of the Dutch QGIS User Group.

Hans established the GIS OpenCourseWare platform for sharing free course materials on QGIS, Python, Google Earth Engine and much more. The PCRaster Tools plugin for QGIS that he’s developed has been downloaded more than 40k times. Hans is also a co-author of the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications and has a YouTube Channel with more than 25k subscribers. As a member of QCooperative, he is well connected with the best open source GIS developers.

Involved in:

• Automating GIS processes with PyQGIS
• QGIS essentials for water modelling
• ChatGPT: Water sector applications (April 2023)
• QGIS essentials for water modelling (February 2023)
• QGIS essentials for groundwater: mapping and modelling
• QGIS for groundwater applications (March 2021)
• QGIS for preparing and visualising hydrological data (August 2020)
• Webinar: QGIS for water modellers (December 2019)