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Geomatics in the News
National Surveyors Week 2023 March 19-25 brought attention to the Surveying and Geomatics Sciences Program and got a spot on the TrojanVision News that week.
Geo Day 2023
The department's annual geospatial career event Geo Day 2023 was held March 15th to introduce high school and community college students to geospatial careers that are in very high demand. Read more HERE
GIS Day 2022
Dr. Wu hosted GIS Day 2022 with the help of the City of Troy Utilities. Troy Geomatics
graduate Patrick McLure and Chase Collins, Troy's UAS program director, along with
some students joined Dr. Wu on the quad to promote GIS. The GIS faculty also hosted
an online webinar with Brian Baldwin of ESRI to learn more about the future of GIS.
Troy University’s Geo Day 2022 was a great success hosting almost 200 high school
students and their sponsors from 21 different schools across the state to learn about
geospatial careers. The Geospatial Informatics Department’s annual recruiting event
was halted in 2021 due to the pandemic, but they came out strong in 2022 with efforts
to introduce students to the Surveying and Geomatics Sciences Program, and the Geographic
Information Sciences (GIS) major offered by Troy University. The students attended
workshops on "Mapping Your Future", "Drone Mapping", "Modern Mapping", and "LIDAR
(Light Detection and Ranging) Mapping” presented by Troy faculty and staff and geospatial
professionals including those from the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors
(ASPLS).
Many of the students were interested in the use of drones which surveyors and GIS technicians use to collect geographic data. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) took a drone photo of the entire group who attended Geo Day 2022 and demonstrated their newest drone that takes off vertically and flips over to complete its mission.
Special thanks to our sponsor company Surveying and Mapping, LLC (SAM) who provided backpacks for the students as a memento of Geo Day 2022.
One of the high school teachers said, “I wish I were young again” so she could be involved in this exciting career field. "We were really impressed by the large turnout," said Geospatial Informatics Department Chair Dr. Xutong Niu. "These students now have the information and a "map" to get the training & education they need to enter the workforce with high paying and enjoyable careers."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected Troy's Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS program to be a part of the UAS Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI). Read more HERE
The Geospatial Informatics Department had its first Geographic Information Science (GIS) graduate, Yitong Wu, May 8, 2020. Read more Here.
Navigation Electronics Inc. (NEI) made a generous donation of state of the art survey equipment to the department in January 2020. Read More Here.