News — Large, unidentified flying objects (UFOs / UAPs) have been appearing in the sky over New Jersey and now Pennsylvania. Are these sightings airplanes? Alien spaceships? Drones flown by domestic pilots or foreign actors? The imagination runs wild in the absence of credible facts. In York County, Pennsylvania, drones are a common sight because they’re instrumental in farmland monitoring and other agricultural activities. Are these lights in the sky more of the same – or something stranger? Interview a practicing drone expert today to learn more.
, is the Program Lead for Geospatial Technology and the Associate Vice President of Continuous Improvement at Harrisburg University in Central Pennsylvania. He’s been making the rounds across the news media to talk about the apparent proliferation of drones in airspace over New Jersey and Pennsylvania, assuage potential fears, discuss the current state of drone and airspace regulations in the United States, and more.
Albert Sarvis received his BA in Geoenvironmental Studies from Shippensburg University in 1991 and his MA in Geography at Ohio University in 1994. Mr. Sarvis began his teaching experience as a Graduate Assistant at OU teaching Physical Geography and Geospatial Technology labs. Mr. Sarvis has also taught graduate level Geospatial Technology classes at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and undergraduate classes at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC). In 2005 he began working with Harrisburg University as a corporate faculty member helping to develop and teach the Geospatial Technology program before joining the HU staff full time in January 2011.
Prior to becoming a full-time professor, Mr. Sarvis worked for 16 years in the Geospatial Technology consulting industry, spending 11 of those years as a project manager. He obtained his Project Management Professional certification in 2005 and GIS Professional certification in 2007. Mr. Sarvis has presented Geospatial Technology and Project Management at numerous conferences and workshops during his consulting career and maintains a wide range of Geospatial Industry contacts to benefit both the Geospatial Technology and Project Management program content and future student careers.
Most recently Mr. Sarvis has begun to incorporate sUAS operations within Harrisburg University. This work has been primarily research into using drones for photogrammetry, GIS mapping, structure from motion 3D modeling, and multispectral sensing applications. Mr. Sarvis has received several private and Harrisburg University research grants to test thermal imaging for reptile detection and monitoring in Pennsylvania and on Grand Cayman. He has also used drone mapping technologies for archaeology studies in Greece.
To interview Professor Sarvis, please contact Jessica Warren, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications, at [email protected] or 717.901.5159.
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