On September 26, 2017, a public lecture and ERDAS software grant from Leica Geosystems Indonesia to the UGM Geodetic Engineering Department was held. A total of 500 software licenses consisting of three leading products of ERDAS, Geomedia Desktop 2016, ERDAS Foundation 2016 and ERDAS IMAGINE 2016 are distributed free of charge to UGM Geodetic Engineering Department students interested in using GIS, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing software.

Along with the symbolic software license submission, a public lecture by Bpk. Badruszaman and Bpk. Arvy Fachrully as representative of Leica Geosystems Indonesia. In his general lecture, Mr. Badruszaman explained about the progress of survey and mapping technology in Indonesia, especially on airborne mapping for photogrammetry, LiDAR and hydrography. Students who attend seem interested in following the explanation delivered, as evidenced by the many questions asked to the presenters about the presentation submitted. The public lecture and licensing ceremony was then ended by doorprice-sharing from Leica Geosystems to some of the lucky students.

At the 30th National Student Scientific Competition (PIMNAS) competition organized by Kemenristekdikti at Universitas Muslim Indonesia Makassar on 23rd to 28th of August 2017, one of the team from Universitas Gadjah Mada won the 1st Winner of PKM Entrepreneurship. The team consists of Ali Surojaya (Engineering Geodesi 2016) as chairman, and comprises Muhammad Fahriza (Engineering Physics 2016), Marisha Salsabila (Computer Science 2016), Muhammad Nizar Rahman (Computer Science 2016), and Maulidini Fatimah Azahra (Remote Sensing and GIS 2016). With the guidance of Dr.Eng Herianto, S.T, M.Eng.

Raising the theme of educational media to raise awareness of technological innovation for children in Indonesia with Title Eldu Kit. The team was selected to be one of the 3,918 proposals funded from 77,678 proposed PKM proposal titles. The implementation of the Student Creativity Program (PKM) activity is quite long, after passing funded, each team must conduct Monitoring and Evaluation activities. Only then was elected 420 PKM title that pass to compete in this 30th PIMNAS event.

In this PIMNAS there are two main activities namely Poster Scientific and Presentation Exhibition, with each will be contested champion in each category. Of the total 23 medals achieved by UGM, Team Eldu Kit successfully contributed 1 Gold Medal in Presentation category. Gadjah Mada University won the title with details of 3 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals, and 2 Bronze Medals in the Presentation category. And 5 Gold Medals, 5 Silver Medals, and 6 Bronze Medals in the Poster category. In addition UGM also won 10 Favorite Awards.

A total of seven teams each consisting of a mixture of UGM Geodetic Engineering students and other departments at UGM pass the selection stage to follow the GeoInnovation Bootcamp held by the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) at Saung Dolken, October 14 to 16, 2017. Here are 25 best innovations who were invited to follow the Geoinnovation Bootcamp agenda in Bogor:

Leica Geosystems Indonesia in cooperation with UGM Geodesy Engineering Department provides 500 free ERDAS software licenses for use by students. Here are the free shared software:

1. GeoMedia Desktop 2016

2. ERDAS Foundation 2016

3. ERDAS IMAGINE 2016 (64 bit or 32 bit)

All three software can be used by students who are interested to explore the field of GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing using ERDAS software. Technical installation and licensing implementation can contact Dany Laksono at Lt.1 Building Geodesy Engineering UGM.