Surveying and Mapping at ETSU
This program is one of the top Surveying and Mapping programs in the
United States. At ETSU surveying has been offered for long time and in 1987 the
existing program was revised and expanded. The goal was to create a
four-year degree in surveying and mapping science that could meet the needs
of the surveying profession in the central southeastern region of the
nation. The program has been accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation
Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ASAC
of ABET).
To keep the program active and growing we
are always looking for new students. Many of our current students have had
some field experience in surveying, and most of them have taken some college
classes at another institution. We are always willing to discuss
transfer
agreements with two-year programs at many institutions who offer
surveying, civil engineering, drafting and related studies. When students
have the long-term goal of becoming licensed professional surveyors and
may be having their own business, working toward a four-year degree is one
step toward that goal.
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What is Surveying /Geomatics?
Surveying and
Mapping, which is also now known as Geomatic Engineering is a rapidly
developing discipline that focuses on spatial information, i.e. locational
information. The location is the main factor used to integrate a very wide
range of data for viewing and analysis. As almost all information has some
kind of location, the varieties of information and applications with which
the Surveying Engineer is involved are extremely wide. Surveying / Geomatics
Engineering includes the disciplines of land boundaries cadastres, geodesy, photogrammetry,
remote sensing, mapping, geographic and land information systems, spatial
computing, computer vision, and surveying business.
Land
boundaries cadastres are concerned with the surveying of property boundary
lines. Geodesy
is concerned with precise positioning on the Earth, and thus serves as a
foundation for other spatial sciences. Photogrammetry is the science of high
precision measurements from photographs and other forms of imagery.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are systems for bringing together large
amounts of data, spatial and non-spatial, to aid in complex decision-making,
modeling, planning and management of resources, and land management. |
