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Setting up your computer

This tutorial provides the necessary information on how to setup your personal computer for the hazard assessment class we will do as part of the volcanology module. Namely, we will:

  1. Install QGIS and the associated plugin Q–LavHA (Mossoux et al., 2016)1, a model for the probabilistic hazard assessment of lava flows.
  2. Install Matlab and TephraProb (Biass et al., 2016)2, a model for the probabilistic hazard modelling of tephra fallout.

QGIS setup tutorial Matlab setup tutorial

Use your user disk!

If you are using the PC of the computer lab, make sure your files are saved on your personal drive! This is typically the H:\ drive. Otherwise, your files will be deleted every time you logout!

  1. Mossoux S, Saey M, Bartolini S, Poppe S, Canters F, Kervyn M. Q-LAVHA: A flexible GIS plugin to simulate lava flows. Computers\ & Geosciences 2016;97:98--109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2016.09.003. ↩

  2. Biass S, Bonadonna C, Connor L, Connor C. TephraProb: A Matlab package for probabilistic hazard assessments of tephra fallout. Journal of Applied Volcanology 2016;5:1--16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-016-0050-5. ↩