Time waits for no one, and neither does technology. Just after students graduate college, the digital realm has often advanced far enough to make many newly-acquired skills practically obsolete.
Troy University has designed a new geospatial informatics department with the hope of not only getting students ahead of others competing for similar jobs post-graduation, but also ahead of the technology that often makes graduates’ knowledge antiquated.
Geospatial informatics – or Geomatics -- is the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data relating to the Earth’s surface. It combines mapping, data analysis and other related disciplines and allows the user to package the material for many different kinds of applications. ...continued ...