Troy University Geospatial Informatics Department

It was great having Weygand LLC on campus today! Brian Krogsgard, Mary Kinley Overby, and Zeb Maze came down from Birmingham to spend some time getting to know our surveying students and talk about their work.

It was their first visit with us, and we’re looking forward to having them back! We’re also pretty sure the Moe’s BBQ helped make a good first impression. 😄 Thanks to Weygand LLC for spending the day with our students!

The Basics of Surveying lab is getting a little more technical. The students were doing more leveling, taking measurements and collecting data to develop an elevation model of the surrounding area. If you have ever walked around the Chapel, you know this is the perfect spot to study changes in elevation. And there was a little shade for relief😊Follow along to see what they are doing this week!

If you or someone you know have ever wanted to find out more about Surveying or GIS at Troy, now is your chance. We will host an Admissions tour of our department on Oct 9th. Meet the faculty, see the equipment, talk to students and learn about career opportunities. Scan the QR code or go to the link in our bio to register.

This week's company visit was with .geospatial Jason Alvarez, Justin Evers and recent Troy grad, Paris Thomas came to speak and brought Sisters for lunch. It was great to see everyone!

September 23 marks the 220th anniversary of Lewis and Clark’s return to St. Louis, concluding their now-famous 8,000-mile journey. It was an incredible feat of land surveying and cartography. Without modern tech, the Corps of Discovery relied on fundamental surveying tools to chart completely unknown territory. Clark was only off by 40 miles in his calculations of how far they had travelled! They mapped rivers and mountain ranges, calculated latitudes, and laid the groundwork for the geographic future of a continent. Every boundary line we survey today carries a piece of that same legacy: transforming the unknown into data we can trust.

Our series on the Basics of Surveying Lab continues after a week's break! The next step in taking accurate field measurements is learning how to properly level. In surveying, leveling isn't about matching the ground surface, it's about establishing a flat, horizontal line of sight to accurately measure elevation changes. In this lab, there were two points set in front of Wallace Hall where the ground isn’t quite level. Stay tuned for the next installment of Surveying 101.

Our visitors this week were from the Young Surveyors Network . Jonathan Nobles is Vice President, Matt Herrell is the coordinator for Alabama, and Rick Armond is the coordinator for Florida. The YSN serves as the bridge between the younger members of state professional surveyors societies and the more established members and provide connections and support that students will need when embarking upon their careers.