Where do Geomatics graduates come from?
For several decades now these different topics were taught at Australian universities by surveying departments – with the nine universities still teaching geomatics courses. However as GIS, remote sensing and other new spatial technologies emerged, the various surveying programs moved quickly to add them in their programs because of their obvious relevance to students. Furthermore, over the past 20 years all of these former surveying departments have since changed their names to reflect the broader content now offered -and so we see new department names such as geomatics, geospatial science and spatial information systems now being used. Another popular concept has been for geomatics students at these universities to take a second degree in fields such as computer science, information systems, geology and environmental science- which gives them very strong multi-disciplinary skills. These combined degree programs have been so popular that, at the University of Melbourne for example, ap
