{"id":1073,"date":"2016-02-15T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/artsandsciences\/geospatial-information-technologies\/our-team\/faculty-members\/dr-robert-austin\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:11:47","slug":"austin-robert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/artsandsciences\/geospatial-information-technologies\/our-team\/austin-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin, Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”44″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Back to Our Team<\/span><\/i><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]
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Email:<\/span><\/h2>\n

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1.800.468.6378<\/h4>\n

Office Location:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Kethley Hall, Suite E<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Resume<\/span><\/i><\/a>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][divider line_type=”Full Width Line”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][vc_column_text]\n

Biography<\/span><\/h2>\n

Dr. Robert F. Austin is a geospatial industry professional with experience in the academic sector as a geography professor, in local government as a GIS manager and in the private sector as a GIS consultant and manager.\u00a0 He was a co-founder in 1994 of Lambda Tech International, a firm that applied photogrammetry and digital image acquisition to street centerline mapping.\u00a0 His service to the profession includes membership on the Boards of Directors of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association (which he also served as President) and of the GIS Certification Institute.\u00a0 In 2010, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to serve two terms on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee; during his second three-year term her served as Chair of the NGAC.\u00a0 He is the lead author of the textbook GIS for Critical Infrastructure Protection<\/em>.\u00a0 His international experience includes GIS project work and instruction in Antigua, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Malaysia, Russia and Ukraine and business development work in China and Thailand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” equal_height=”yes” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”10″ overlay_strength=”1″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/3″ offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-10-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ centered_text=”true” width=”1\/1″][image_with_animation image_url=”7154″ alignment=”center” animation=”None”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\n

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A 2015-2018 USGS and NGA Center of Academic Excellence in Geosciences<\/span><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/3″ offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-10-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][image_with_animation image_url=”7155″ alignment=”center” animation=”None”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\n

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