Announcing new Fall 2009 FDI GIS/RS courses

Virginia Tech GIS will be offering three GIS courses during the Fall 2009 semester via the Faculty Development Institute (FDI). These courses are open to Virginia Tech faculty and staff, as well as graduate students with faculty advisor's permission. Content will be geared towards novice, intermediate as well as advanced GIS and Remote Sensing users.

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Featured Project

Region 2000Virginia’s Region 2000, (which includes: includes the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell, the cities of Bedford and Lynchburg, and the towns of Altavista, Amherst, Appomattox, Brookneal and Pamplin) and Virginia Tech’s eCorridors group are developing a prototype of a vertical asset inventory tool using GIS and other geospatial technologies. Vertical assets in this context are structures within a locality (tall buildings, silos, smokestacks, water tanks, existing communication towers, etc)  that wireless Internet service providers can use to deliver for the delivery of services, A geographic based inventory system will allow localities to quickly enter, search, sort, display, and retrieve data that can  facilitate private sector and local investment in rural broadband deployment. This initiative is funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Secretary of Technology Productivity Investment Fund.

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Region 2000 Vertical Asset Inventory Tool
Enterprise GIS

The Enterprise GIS Research and Development Administration Group was created under the aegis of "Strategic Partnership Initiatives" reporting to the Vice President for Information Technology at Virginia Tech. This is considered a strategic initiative of IT for serving the Virginia Tech research and administration, as well as a limited selection of external partners who are associated with the Commonwealth of Virginia and its localities. The group was formed in the Fall of 2008 as a means of addressing the need for storage and hosting of GIS data and for access and training for GIS tools and other resources. The intent is to create efficiencies of scale and significant cost savings to university departments by leveraging the latest technologies in data hosting and storage as well as the expertise of the IT professionals in the IT organization who manage the university's computing and networking functions on a daily basis.

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FDI Class