Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Remote Sensing

Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training –Remote Sensing (i. GETT-RS): An Interagency Collaboration http: //igett. delmar. edu • 36 instructors of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at 28 community colleges, 4 high schools, and 4 four-year colleges (in two cohorts) will each receive 18 months of professional development in foundational knowledge of remote sensing. • Participants will learn to identify, download, analyze, and integrate Landsat, MODIS, and/or ASTER data with GIS to solve practical problems in agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, disaster management, environmental science, forestry, and urban planning. • Summer Institutes will take place at the U. S. Geological Survey’s EROS Center in Sioux Falls, SD and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD. • i. GETT-RS participants will join 38 graduates of the project’s predecessor, “i. GETT, ” in a Community of Practice. • i. GETT- RS exercises created by participants will be matrixed to skills and competencies for the remote sensing technician recently accepted by the U. S. Department of Labor, and to the Geospatial Technology Competency Model: http: //www. careeronestop. org/Competency. Model/pyramid. aspx? GEO=Y • i. GETT- Remote Sensing is a multi-year collaboration by the National Council for Geographic Education, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USGS Land Remote Sensing Program, West Valley College, and the National Geospatial Technology Center. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation DUE ATE #1205069 1 Jeannie Allen jeannette. e. allen@nasa. gov