Tutorial: Process Groundwater Data in QGIS
Requisitos de conclusão
4. Define the study area
4.2. Export selected feature(s)
Now we have selected the aquifer of our study area we can export the feature to a new layer in our GeoPackage.
1. Click right on the aquifers layer in the Layers panel and choose Export | Save Selected Features As...
2. In the Save Vector Layer as... dialogue choose GeoPackage as Format. Choose our existing GeoPackage Malawi_GIS_data.gpkg as File name. Give it the Layer name Shire Valley Alluvial Aquifer. Check that the CRS is EPSG: 32736.
3. Click OK.
The Malawi_GIS_data Shire Valley Alluvial Aquifer layer is now added to the project.
In the next subsection we'll create a buffer around the aquifer boundary to extend the study area a bit to account for boundary effects.