 Hello, this is Hans van der Krost, Senior Lecturer at IHG Delft Institute for Water Education. In this video I will show you how to get started with using PC Raster in QGIS. I'll show you the following steps, how to install Anaconda and set up the environment with PC Raster and QGIS, then how to install the QGIS resource sharing plugin, how to set up the repository, and download the scripts, and I'll give a little tour on the scripts that are available and we'll end with showing how to convert your Raster files to the PC Raster map format. You can also find the steps in the repository on GitHub. I'll post the link also in the description of this video. First we need to install Anaconda or Miniconda. Here I show you how to install Anaconda from the website, download Anaconda installers and then choose the installer that is for your operating system. After installing Anaconda you can find the Anaconda prompt in the start menu. Open the Anaconda prompt. The next step is to create the environment and install PC Raster and QGIS in the same environment so they can be used together. We use conda create and then dash dash name then we define the name of the environment. You can give it any name. It should be one word. Call it PC Raster QGIS and then the repository where the installers are dash conda dash force. Then you can define the Python version. PC Raster and QGIS run on different Python versions. Here I choose 392 as an example and then PC Raster and QGIS can be defined and you can also use the equal sign with the version number to install other versions. It will now install the latest stable one of both. It starts downloading the information and installing it in your new environment. After the installation you need to activate the environment in order to use it. It gives the command so we just type conda activate and then the name of the new environment PC Raster QGIS and now you see in brackets before the prompt the environment. So when you start it it's base and now we change to PC Raster QGIS. You can start Python by typing Python to verify the version and see if PC Raster can be imported. It's just a test. It works. I can leave this with control Z and now I can start QGIS by typing QGIS and pressing enter. Then it will start QGIS from the conda environment. Now we can install the QGIS resource sharing plugin. Go to manage and install plugins from the main menu. There I look for resource and find the QGIS resource sharing plugin. This is a plugin that allows to share symbology and scripts and other things that are useful and you can add your own repositories. After it has successfully installed you can find this green button here in the toolbar. If you click on it you find here a lot of pre-installed repositories and just go through it to see if there's something useful for you. The PC Raster repository is not yet in the list so we need to manually add it. Click on add repository and you can give it any name and you need to add the link and that's the GitHub repository link but you need to add .git otherwise it doesn't work. Some repositories need authentication this one doesn't it's just open so you click OK and now it's added and then under all collections you can also find it now and it will give the metadata and now you can click install and we see here that 87 scripts have been added. If there are updates you need to reinstall this repository and then you will get the updates. Let's go to the processing toolbox and find these new tools. Find them under scripts PC Raster and there's the whole list of scripts and just to highlight a few groups all the operators that start with area are zonal operations they work on classes. There's a lot of hydrological tools. There's some converters PC Raster uses specific data types and we can import also our other raster layers to the PC Raster format with the proper data type. I'll show that in the end of this video the map operators they are global operations and each tool has a link to the official PC Raster documentation so you can easily find out what it does and how it works. Then there are also window operators and they work on moving windows so these are focal operations where you specify a certain window length. Now all these PC Raster tools work with the PC Raster format so to get started I will show you how to convert your geotifs or other raster data to the PC Raster format. The PC Raster format is a GDAL format so you can mix it in other tools that exist in QGIS. So let's use the convert to PC Raster format tool and here we can convert the build G layer. It's a nominal layer which means it has classes and make sure you choose the map file and then I can save it to build G dot map. Click save then I run it and now it used GDAL to convert it and it adds the result to the layers list. You can see it there the map file and we can do the same for the other files. So let's convert the DTM. That is a scalar data type which means it's a continuous raster and there is conversion and let's also do the others. This one is also scalar, continuous values, decimals, negative values, everything's possible. The other types are Boolean for if it's a true or false, directional if it's a compass direction and LDD if it's a local drain direction which is a flow direction map. The roads here are classes so that's nominal again. Now we've converted all these geotifs to the PC Raster format and we're ready to use these files in analysis using these PC Raster tools which I will show you in the next videos.