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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> option (shortcut here).  New publications include: sUAS Manual Flight Exercises:  Practice Flight Drills for New Drone Pilots (26 pages  |  5 MB) An Introduction to Precision Agriculture: An Educators Guide to Agricultural Earth Observation (99

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!

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 will target increasing the number of UAS pilots trained and certified to fly small UAS (sUAS), defined as UAS weighing between .55 lbs. and 55 lbs. at takeoff. Under FAA Part 107 regulations, a person

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 of applications. Applications span disciplines and industries and can include: planning, natural resource management, marketing, inspection of structures, agricultural production, permitting, and public safety. Specific sensors can be used to tailor application needs. Flights can

With funding support from GO Virginia and in partnership with the Richard Bland College of William & Mary (RBC), the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC), the Geospatial Extension Program at Virginia Tech, and the Virginia Unmanned Systems Center at the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) recently conducted an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Workforce Survey to inform future workforce development and education programs to train the UAS workforce. Faculty leaders from the NSF-funded GeoTEd-UAS project were also partners on the project. Here is a link to the final report for the survey that was completed by employers and organization

Working with Lidar Using ArcGIS Pro is a new text book that was developed through VirginiaView, in partnership with GeoTEd-UAS, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and other partners. This textbook was developed for individuals who utilize lidar data and who have either migrated, or are in the process of migrating to ArcGIS Pro. While the text was initially developed to support course delivery for 2-year and 4-year college / univ. students, this resource is also being utilized by local and state government officials, the private sector, and non-profits.  Working with Lidar Using