Geospatial Science and Technology - Mountwest Community and Technical College

Geospatial Science and Technology from Mountwest Community and Technical College is a Campus Associate Geography degree that prepares you for a Science career. Program Description: The Mountwest Community & Technical College offers the student the opportunity to work with and develop technical skills with image and image-processing software products. The application of satellite imaging, aerial photography, remote sensing, and geographical information systems is a large growth area with application to many career fields where image enhancement and data analysis can be used in decision making situations. The geospatial worker should possess basic skills in the manipulation of existing GIS software, problem identification and solving; mastery of analytic geospatial tools; and critical topics in the fields of computer science, mathematics and statistics, and information technology. The geospatial workforce must be capable of dealing with a continuing pattern of rapid change, as well as with the substantial challenge of adapting existing knowledge and tools to uses in a variety of new, complex situations. Above-average knowledge of computer and information science, as well as the ability to spend their careers in near-continuous learning mode, become critical characteristics at nearly all levels of the future geospatial workforce. Career Outlook: The U.S. Department of Labor recently identified the growing importance of the geospatial based industry, together with 13 other sectors, as the focus of its High-Growth Job Training Initiative. The 14 sectors were selected based on the following criteria: 1. They are projected to add substantial numbers of new jobs to the economy or affect the growth of other industries, or 2. They are existing or emerging businesses being transformed by technology and innovation requiring new skill sets for workers. In addition to the geospatial industry, only biotechnology and nanotechnology were identified as being among the most important of these emerging and evolving fields (Gewin 2004). While new career titles are being created, the U.S. Department of Labor states that overall employment of surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying technicians is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2014. Employment Opportunities: Business: financial services, insurance, real estate, retail, and commercial business cartography and map publishing Communications: location-based services, media and press, telecommunications conservation Defense: defense and intelligence Education: schools, libraries, and museums Engineering: civil engineering, surveying Government: economic development, elections, general, homeland security, land records, law enforcement, public safety, state and local sustainable development, urban and regional planning Health and human services: hospitals and health systems, public health and human services Natural Resources: agriculture, archaeology, cave, environmental management, forestry, marine and coast, mining and warth science, petroleum, pipeline, water resources. Transportation: logistics, transportation systems and networks Utilities: electric & gas, water/wastewater View more details on Mountwest Community and Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Geography courses.