Science, technology, engineering and math teachers got hands-on experience with drones and geospatial applications June 27-29 at St. Cloud State.
The “DroneTECH Educator Workshop” showed educators how they can use drones and geospatial technology in their teaching. Geospatial technology is the analysis of Earth using data, maps and aerial images.
Teachers learned about drone regulations, safety protocols, flight planning, operations, data collection, imagery processing techniques and practical industry applications.
Orthomosaic of the north end of St. Cloud State’s Selke Field and the west part of the Talahi Elementary School campus. An orthomosaic is a series of photos programmatically organized into a composite image.
DroneTECH is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by Northland Community and Technical College, East Grand Forks and Thief River Falls.
Drones are sometimes called unmanned aerial systems or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Workshop faculty were drawn from these Minnesota State schools: Northland, Ridgewater College and St. Cloud State’s geographic information systems program and land survey/mapping sciences program.
Located in Thief River Falls, Northland’s aerospace program offers three degrees, including the nation’s first unmanned aerial systems degree.
Learn about:
- DroneTECH workshops
- St. Cloud State drone certification workshop in August
- GEOG 476 “Topics in GIS: UAS Image Acquisition and Processing”
