PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
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In our opinion, high school teachers play a vital, though
undervalued, role in motivating and helping to foster the next
generation of Geomatics engineers. Promoting projects like
this, will encourage them to include alternative interactive
experiences and class discussions to not only stimulate
learning but to also infuse specific career information.
Results and Conclusions
Since the first edition of
D3Mobile
in 2013, the number of
participants has increased over the years, resulting in more
than 1400 students from 44 countries around the world
participating in the last edition. As a result of six-years of hard
work, our researchgroup, CIGEO—Civil&GeomaticsResearch
Group, was invited to present this project at SCIENTIX, the
community for science education in Europe, and SPIN2016,
Ibero-American network of entrepreneurship. During these
past six-years, we have involved more than 40 partners in the
project.
D3Mobile
has also been selected as a “Good Practice”
by the European Commission by its initiative “Open Education
Europe” for contributing innovative education.
Above all this, the project allowed us to improve the awareness
and visibility of Geomatics, including subdisciplines like
photogrammetry, thus changing participants’ perceptions
about them. 3D scanning and modelling were indicated on
surveys by most students to be attractive professional fields
for them in the future.
We invite you to visit our website (
) for
more details of the initiative. In the future, we would especially
like to encourage the entire community involved in Geomatics
to promote similar activities to support this field. The upcoming
years look bright for the Geospatial sector and a new generation
of professionals will be prepared to lead the change.
Authors
Juan Ortiz-Sanz
,
, is a Professor with the Agro-
forestry Engineering Department, University of Santiago de
Compostela, Spain. His main area of expertise includes the use
of close-range photogrammetry in recording cultural heritage,
structural analysis and rural building. He currently works with
CIGEO—Civil & Geomatics Research Group of the University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
and he is the coordinator and
the principal investigator of
D3Mobile
.
Mariluz Gil-Docampo
,
is a Professor with
the Agroforestry Engineering Department, University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Currently, she leads the
CI-
GEO—Civil & Geomatics Research Group of the University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
and she also coordinates the
M. S. degree in operation and engineering of UAVs, at the
same institution
.
Teresa Rego-Sanmartín
,
es, is a secondary school teacher with the
Culture, Education
and University Department, Xunta de Galicia, Spain.
Since
2013, she has been involved with the organization of
D3Mobile
and many other STEM initiatives and outreach programs in
high schools.
Marcos Arza-García
,
, is a Researcher Assis-
tant with the
CIGEO—Civil & Geomatics Research Group,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
where he is
currently pursuing his Ph.D
.
He has been involved with the
organization of the latest editions of
D3Mobile
.
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