QGIS Plugin – Profile Tool

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So, this will be a pretty quick post on one of my most used QGIS plugins, the Profile tool. The Profile tool can be downloaded from the central QGIS plugin repository HERE. In a nutshell, the Profile tool allows you to draw a line in your QGIS project area and get the profiles of various layers in your project, as seen here:

Screen shot 2013-01-27 at 4.43.12 PM

The most obvious use of this tool is looking at terrain profiles, and it certainly is very useful for this. However, in the example above, I am using it to give me DN profiles for band 1 from two multispectral images. The profile view can either be embedded in the QGIS main window, or separated as its own window depending on your preference.

Screen shot 2013-01-27 at 4.49.24 PM

The data generated from the tool can be output as an image file or output to a spreadsheet program.

The Profile tool is easy to use and hopefully you will find new uses for in your projects. As always thanks for reading

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Tyler Veinot
Tyler Veinot
7 years ago

Does it work at showing profiles for vector layers?

Christoph Gruetzner
Christoph Gruetzner
7 years ago

When using the Profile Tool, make sure it gets the lengths right. Didn’t work for me. In this case, I converted degrees to UTM using http://www.zonums.com/online/coords/cotrans.php?module=13, then calculated the right distances along profile with Excel. Anybody else got that problem? E.g., 10.5 km long profile appeared to be ~15 km.