SURVEYING AND GEOMATICS SCIENCES

PROGRAM

My main philosophy in life is to start from the whole and then work towards the part, ensuring that the process is kept simple. In keeping within the context of my philosophy, I am academically interested in the wide area of Geomatics which ranges from the traditional Land Surveying concepts and techniques to that of knowledge based and machine learning Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

My BSc Land Surveying degree was obtained from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. The necessary foundation upon which the Geomatics field is based was covered. My MSc GIS degree was funded by the Netherlands Fellowship Program. My MSc. was obtained from the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences in the Netherlands. This course provided the necessary GIS concepts and the opportunity to apply such concepts to various real life applications over a wide range of professions. My MSc thesis involved one year's work in applying GIS to an unplanned settlement in Tanzania. The results from my research supported the work which was being done in the settlement at that time. My Ph.D. was funded by the New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship. My Ph.D. was obtained from the University of Otago in New Zealand. My area of Ph.D. research addressed issues regarding the sharing of geographic data sets from any data source. My contribution to knowledge was to propose and prove that directories can be used to support the discovery of geographic data sets among autonomous data set providers.

At Troy University (TSU) I teach the following Geomatics courses: Introduction to GIS (GEM 3390), Introduction to GIS Lab (L390), Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (GEM 3366), Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Lab (GEM L366), AutoCAD (GEM 1100), AutoCAD Lab (GEM L100), GIS Applications (GEM 3391), GIS Applications Lab (GEM L391), Basics of Cartography and Surveying (GEM 2220), Boundary Retracement Seminar (GEM L310), Geodesy and Geodetics (3370), Geodesy and Geodetics Lab (L370), Land Development (GEM 4407), and Subdivision Design Practice (L407), Cooperative Work Experience I (GEM 4495), Cooperative Work Experience II (GEM 4496), and Geomatics Projects (GEM 4499).

The following topics are a concise description of my goals and aspirations and achievements in my life:

 

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