New Professional Development Workshop for Educators! The program An Experiential and Data-driven Approach to Agricultural Education (ADVANCE) is a face-to-face professional workforce development opportunity that provides educators with the knowledge, experience, curriculum resources, supplies/equipment, and mentoring to support the implementation of drones and precision agriculture concepts in the classroom. This is a hands-on, field-based workshop.
Landsat Next Fact Sheet
The USGS has released the Landsat Next Factsheet. Landsat Next will ensure the continued continuity of the Landsat program and is expected to launch in 2030. Learn more about Landsat Next from here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3005/fs20243005.pdf
New Drone Workshops!
New Workshops for 2024! We are offering a couple of new workshop options for 2024! Come learn about the workflows associated with generating maps from drones at the 3-day, face-to-face Mapping with Drones: Drone Discovery Workshop at Virginia Tech! And for those of you who need to take the FAA's remote pilot test (required
New Remote Sensing Tutorial Book! Remote Sensing with ArcGIS Pro (2nd Edition)
Remotely sensed images are widely available and have countless potential applications. In the past, analyzing these images required specialized software. Esri’s ArcGIS® Pro software provides image analysis tools that both novice and experienced analysts can use. This manual provides a series of easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorials to guide you through Landsat image acquisition and data
Virginia Tech GIS & RS Research Symposium
Join us as we celebrate Earth Observation Day on April 5, 2024 at the VT GIS and Remote Sensing Research Symposium! Researchers from Virginia Tech and beyond will present their cutting-edge research experiences. Another highlight of the symposium is the Student Poster and Web Map App Showcase with both undergraduate and graduate work on
New Tutorial: Observing Our Natural World with Drones
This document provides a compendium of learning lessons in natural resources that are geared toward middle and high school educators. The curriculum resources included in this manual are intended to be provided ‘cafeteria style’ whereby educators can select the modules and exercises that best target their needs. 92 pages | 5 MB Access the
New Publications for Educators!
Are you looking to extend your educational programming and include more STEM? Look no further. The Virginia Geospatial Extension Program, in partnership with GeoTEd-UAS, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and VirginiaView have developed several new publications to support pre-college and 2-year college educators. These, and other tutorials are available in the <Education> menu under the <Tutorials>
Introduction to Remote Sensing: 6th Edition launched
Introduction to Remote Sensing (sixth edition) has been published by Guilford Press! This textbook was authored by Jim Campbell, Randy Wynne, and Val Thomas - VirginiaView colleagues!
High School CTE Teacher UAS Training Workshop
The High School CTE UAS Training Workshop through the Virginia Pilot Pathway UAS Training Program will increase and diversify the UAS pilot workforce through high school CTE teacher professional development. This will result in the recruitment of more students into the pipeline and by building high school teacher capacity to prepare the workforce. The project
Mapping with Drones Workshop 2022
Mapping with Drones is an intensive, yet introductory level workshop, and can be considered a ‘drone boot camp’. No previous knowledge or experience with drones, sUAS, or GIS is required. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are permeating many sectors of industry, and are increasingly being employed as data collection platforms to support of an array