Educational Programmes for Spatial Information Sciences in the Dublin Institute of Technology

William Prendergast, Dublin Institute of Technology
Eamonn Donnelly, Dublin Institute of Technology
Audrey A. Martin, Dublin Institute of Technology
Avril Behan, Dublin Institute of Technology

Document Type Conference Paper

EUGISES Conference 2014 UCC Sept 2014

Abstract

The ever increasing spatial information needs of society, the rapid development of new surveying technologies, and the global demand for appropriately qualified surveyors, have triggered a radical re-evaluation of geomatics education worldwide. Significant enhancements have been made to the educational programmes in the spatial information science discipline in the Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT) during the last decade including the provision of a BSc in Geomatics and various masters’ programmes to cater for the increasingly specialised needs of the Geographic Information sector in Ireland.