School of Geomatics - A College of Geomatics Engineering

ment training limited to on-the-job use of measuring tapes, simple manual drafting techniques, deeds writing and record keeping. Later structured training courses were designed for the assistant surveyors. After the establishing of Survey Training Centre, a Survey Department, Nepal undertaking, in 1968, longer duration trainings started being conducted for different level of surveyors. The training in conventional surveying and mapping not being adequate, the survey professionals are still being sent abroad for further training and education in subject areas of Geo-informatics. Introduction to SOG

The School of Geomatics (SOG) is a lead private sector institute to impart academic courses and professional training in the field of Geomatics in Nepal. Few years back, the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training, in cooperation with SOG, have developed and brought in function two different regular courses in surveying: one a fifteen months training course to produce assistant surveyors and the other a three years Intermediate level of curriculum, in the field of Geomatics. The first is a training course to impart basic skills in land measurements and mapping and the second is a three years Diploma in Survey Engineering course for Secondary School Graduates which includes, general academic and basic science subjects, land surveying theory and practices, GPS, RS and GIS as major components of the course. Currently a few courses in the universities and colleges and Training institutes have also introduced Geomatics partly or wholly in their respective syllabus. It is utmost necessary to upgrade the technical capabilities of the persons already in the profession, too, for fulfilling the demand of modern and efficient services. Courses aiming at Awareness, Appraisal, Operational and Professional level have also been designed and made available for decision makers, technicians, discipline specialists, students of other faculties and managers respectively.