The West Point campus, located on a plateau high above the Hudson River, is a natural training ground for students who elect to study GIS, which requires gathering, measuring, and documenting features that characterize the physical environment as well as storing the information in databases for future reference.
As featured in Geoworld, October 2009
“SOCET SET®, SOCET for ArcGIS® and SOCET GXP® are used to train cadets for the operational environment. These software applications are used in the field to check for accuracy, create line-of-sight analyses to determine what a sniper can see, create terrain models to help navigate a local geography, and determine the direction a door swings — in or out — for greater situational awareness. Future officers gain firsthand experience on a variety of tasks such as importing frame or satellite imagery into SOCET SET from government and commercial sources, triangulation, terrain-model generation, orthorectification, and feature collection to meet precise standards.”