Visualize and Animate Mesh Data: Introduction

1. Introduction

Besides vector and raster, data sometimes comes in the mesh format. This format is often used in hydraulics, oceanography and meteorology. A mesh is an unstructured grid usually with temporal and other components. More info about mesh data can be found in the QGIS Documentation.

In this tutorial we're going to:

Style a precipitation mesh
Animate a precipitation mesh
Calculate precipitation sum with mesh calculator
Extract precipitation at a specific location
Make graphs with the Data Plotly plugin