Class Overview

Geospatial Field Methods (Geography 336) is a class that is meant to give students valuable hands-on learning experience in field data collection. Various topics will be covered including: coordinate systems, field navigation, survey methods, and aerial mapping with unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Students will work in groups of five to lessen the work load in the field and to practice working with others as a cohesive team. Each student will create a blog in which they will post a technical report each week. These blog postings will help students learn how to communicate their ideas spatially and professionally.

This class is taught by Joseph Hupy, who also teaches classes in military geography, conservation, and weather. His main focus for this class is to prepare students for the ever competitive job market and to make sure that they fully understand not only what they are doing buy why. This class is not required for Geography majors at UWEC, but is required to obtain the Geospatial Certificate offered by UWEC. As such, this is a class for students that want a deeper understanding of Geospatial Techniques, how these techniques can be implemented, and how to report their findings.

My name is Lee Fox and this is my Geospatial Field Methods Blog. I am a geography major with an information systems minor and a chemistry minor with a graduation date set for December 2014. This is not the first blog I have made for classes at UWEC. Last semester I took a trip to France with Joseph Hupy for the class Geography Field Seminar (Geography 368) Geographies of the Western Front. Feel free to look at both my blog for that class and the website that was made to showcase the student’s final projects.