{"id":311,"date":"2013-09-29T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=311"},"modified":"2013-09-29T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T09:41:14","slug":"september-it-must-be-kielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2013\/09\/29\/september-it-must-be-kielder\/","title":{"rendered":"September.. it must be Kielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the leaves darken and the weather worsens, the new academic year starts with a bang as 50 students go off grid in Kielder, Northumberland to develop practical mapping and analysis \u00a0skills in a realistic setting.<\/p>\n

Students from our Geographical Information Science, Surveying and Mapping Science, Physical Geography and Geography programmes spend 9 days collecting and analysing geospatial data using the latest technology. \u00a0We are based in the Calvert Trust Centre on the shores of Kielder Water surrounded by trees, midges and (well that’s about it…)<\/p>\n

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A fully networked geospatial gym!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Halfway through the fieldcourse, our students are “in the groove” , occasionally hampered by tricky conditions! \u00a0Students carry out a mix of detailed topographic survey tasks, DEM creation, Landuse mapping using remote sensed imagery and planning a new residential development site. \u00a0We are very grateful to the landowners and people of the Kielder valley who make us welcome each year. \u00a0So far, the torrential downpours of 2012 have been absent and conditions have been more benign, but there is time yet…<\/p>\n

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Tricky survey conditions over Kielder dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the leaves darken and the weather worsens, the new academic year starts with a bang as 50 students go off grid in Kielder, Northumberland to develop practical mapping and analysis \u00a0skills in a realistic setting. Students from our Geographical Information Science, Surveying and Mapping Science, Physical Geography and Geography programmes spend 9 days collecting … Continue reading “September.. it must be Kielder”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3072,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}