{"id":45500,"date":"2018-04-26T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45500"},"modified":"2018-04-26T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:16:53","slug":"acc-gis-students-test-drone-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/26\/acc-gis-students-test-drone-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC GIS students test drone technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45502\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3.jpg\" alt=\"ACC GIS students test drone mapping technology at Zilker Park. \" width=\"1350\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/04\/Drone-Tech-GIS-3-150x48.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/>Austin Community College Geographic Information Systems (GIS) students are learning how to create detailed maps using drone technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students tested their skills at Zilker Park with a mapping drone called the Robota Eclipse UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Led by ACC instructors and an FAA-certified remote pilot, the students learned to plan, fly, and recover the drone. The drone comes equipped with a camera that can map about 400 acres for every 50-minute flight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is leading-edge technology,\u201d says Sean Moran, GIS department chair. \u201cStudents are exposed to the entire spectrum of GIS &#8212; from capturing images, to analyzing and processing, and then constructing high resolution basemaps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GIS technicians and analysts assist scientists, technologists, and related professionals in building, maintaining, modifying, or using GIS databases. GIS technicians and analysts typically earn more than $41 per hour in Central Texas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACC GIS Program includes two certificates and an associate degree. For more information, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/academic-and-career-programs\/areas-of-study\/design-manufacturing-construction-and-applied-technologies\/geographic-information-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">austincc.edu\/accgis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or contact Moran at 512-223-4944 or <\/span><a href=\"mailto:smoran@austincc.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoran@austincc.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read more and view photos at\u00a0the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gisatacc.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/acc-gis-students-launch-mapping-drone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC GIS blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College Geographic Information Systems (GIS) students are learning how to create detailed maps using drone technology. Students tested their skills at Zilker Park with a mapping drone called the Robota Eclipse UAV (unmanned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/26\/acc-gis-students-test-drone-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[1906,1037,1907,1908,225],"class_list":["post-45500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-drone","tag-gis","tag-mapping","tag-sean-moran","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}