Abstract
Integrating Remote Sensing within Community College Curriculum
Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education
Author
The spatial and human-environmental knowledge embedded within the discipline of geography and geospatial technology is needed now more than ever. The 21st Century requires a skilled workforce to address local, regional and global issues concerning population growth, land use patterns, climate change, insect infestation and forest health, urban heat islands, energy development and management, water shortages, environmental conservation, and disaster mitigation, response, and recovery.
Many of these solutions are spatial in scope and will require a geospatially educated workforce trained in remote sensing alongside geographic information systems. With the help of the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT) project, the Geoscience Department at Salt Lake Community College in Utah has enhanced its geospatial curriculum by integrating remote sensing into its GIS, Geography, Environmental Geology and Sustainability programs to better analyze spatial issues at the local, national, and international scale.
Adam Dastrup
Salt Lake Community College
11767 Zephyr Way
South Jordan, Utah 84095
United States
Phone: 801 6746123
E-mail: robert.dastrup@slcc.edu