GIS student interested in aerial mapping or photography job

Soonermapper, post: 352574, member: 10973 wrote: Hello, GIS will be my second career. I am a retired Navy Flight Engineer with over twenty years of aviation experience. My dream job would be flying an airborne mapping/photography aircraft at relatively low altitudes. I feel that I can use my aviation experience and blend it with my GIS degree. I am currently attending the University of Oklahoma and would like to have some contacts when I graduate. Any information will be greatly appreciated. I should graduate in the spring of 2018. Any information on this will help. Hope to hear from you. Thanks in advance.

-Soonermapper

We are currently seeing rapid technological development in regard to aerial drone technology.
There is a transition occurring. I would keep an eye on what is going on in respect to GIS and drone mapping.
I would suggest making contact with government agencies such as Army Corp of Engineer's, US Fish and Wildlife, United States Forest Service, BLM, ect. ect. They have a large appetite for GIS data/services.

imaudigger, post: 352665, member: 7286 wrote: We are currently seeing rapid technological development in regard to aerial drone technology.
There is a transition occurring. I would keep an eye on what is going on in respect to GIS and drone mapping.
I would suggest making contact with government agencies such as Army Corp of Engineer's, US Fish and Wildlife, United States Forest Service, BLM, ect. ect. They have a large appetite for GIS data/services.

Thanks imaudigger. I'll definitely keep that in mind.