By Ryan Wicks | 25 Jun 2023
Introduction
If you’ve visited the UMass Amherst campus occasionally in the last 10 years you may have noticed dozens of new construction projects of various sorts popping up all over the campus; new academic buildings, solar panel parking canopies (https://www.umass.edu/sustainability/climate-change-energy/solar-energy/2017-solar-projects), and geothermal well drilling, just to name a few. To coordinate these efforts effectively, up-to-date information – specifically GIS data – is quite helpful. Not only does the UMass Amherst Physical Plant leverage drones and Trimble R10 RTK to regularly survey progress on construction projects, but they also host a campus-wide GIS working group whose focus is to promote and leverage the power of GIS data, tools, and ancillary equipment to provide highly detailed, highly accurate, current information to any departments and decision makers in the UMass network.
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