Environmental monitoring has become of paramount importance for researchers and decision makers in order to better protect the environment and achieve sustainable development goals, especially with continuous population growth and rapid urbanization and industrialization processes that alter natural components of the environment and degrade the ecosystems. Hence, the use of Landsat data is of great significance, particularly in environmental monitoring and land management, due to their high spatial resolution and their free of cost availability since 1972. However, calculation of remotely sensed indices for environmental purpose occurs in several steps and requires minimum knowledge in imagery processing. This paper describes the development and design of Q-LIP “QGIS-Landsat Indices plugin”- a simple and easy-to-use tool to download, process and automatically calculate environmental indices from Landsat imagery. Q-LIP has been built under Python and designed as a QGIS software plugin; it is available to download from QGIS Plugin Repository.

为了更好地保护环境并实现可持续发展目标，环境监测对于研究人员和决策者已变得至关重要，特别是随着人口的持续增长以及快速的城市化和工业化进程改变了环境的自然组成部分并破坏了生态系统。因此，自1972年以来，由于Landsat的高空间分辨率和免费的成本可获得性，因此使用Landsat数据具有特别重要的意义，特别是在环境监测和土地管理中。但是，出于环境目的计算遥感指数需要分几步进行，而且需要最少的图像处理知识。本文介绍了Q-LIP“ QGIS-Landsat Indices插件”的开发和设计-一种易于使用的易于下载的工具，处理并自动从Landsat影像中计算环境指数。Q-LIP是在Python下构建的，并设计为QGIS软件插件。可以从QGIS插件存储库下载。