PART 1: Introduction To Idrisi tutorials

The following FOUR video tutorials will take you through the basic introduction to the interface and dealing with files, displaying images, using on-screen digitize to undertake a basic analysis and finally to use numerous methods (image calculator, RECLASS etc) to create a simple malaria risk map

VIDEO 1: Basic introduction, background to Idrisi, data paths and interface

VIDEO 2: Using the image Display function & Composer

VIDEO 3: Creating a transect over space with the Profile function

VIDEO 4: Creating a basic malaria risk map with Reclass, Image calculator & data variables

VIDEO 5: Import an IDRISI PROFILE file (.ipf) into Microsoft Excel

Direct download links for the first FOUR instructional videos

(in .m4v format - can be added to your iTunes library)

1) Click HERE for video 1

2) Click HERE for video 2

3) Click HERE for video 3

4) Click HERE for video 4

(you may have to RIGHT-CLICK the link with your mouse and select 'SAVE AS' )

PART 2: WINDISP tutorials

The following video tutorials tackle some common methods in WINDISP - a free piece of software developed by the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It replicates some of the basic functionality of Idrisi - and can read/write Idrisi images

VIDEO 1: How to download some data from the Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) - then EXPORT from WINDISP to Idrisi32 format

Direct download links for this video

(in .m4v format - can be added to your iTunes library)

Click HERE for this video

(you may have to RIGHT-CLICK the link with your mouse and select 'SAVE AS' )

You may download WINDISP from HERE

Visit the Africa Data Dissemination Service website HERE

PART 3: Meteorological Data tutorials

The following video tutorials tackle the downloading of meteorological data and subsequent 'cleaning up' in Microsoft Excel

VIDEO 1: How to download some meteorological data from NOAA

VIDEO 2: How to clean up raw meteorological data in Microsoft Excel

PART 4: ArcGIS 10 tutorials

The following video tutorials deal with common practices using ArcGIS 10

VIDEO 1: How to transform raw field data (point measurements) into an interpolated map

PART 5: Climate Change

The following videos deal with aspects of climate change

VIDEO 1: A timeline of key events in the history of climate change

(NO SOUND - feel free to use and adapt for your own needs if you wish)