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Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones

  • Written by Robbyn Abbitt, Associate Director of the Geospatial Analysis Center, Miami University
Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstonesMiami University students in the author's advanced GIS course collect headstone data.Robbyn Abbitt, CC BY-SA

If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would’ve laughed and been very confused about the dramatic turn my professional life must’ve taken at some point.

I’m an environmental...

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