{"id":1069,"date":"2024-08-29T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:17:28","slug":"prof-kuta-commissions-cors-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"PROF KUTA COMMISSIONS CORS CENTRE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Zainab Lawal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA), Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, has officially commissioned a Continuous Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Center at the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inauguration ceremony took place on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at the Department&#8217;s facility on the main campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This state-of-the-art center, valued at 15 million naira and generously donated by an alumnus, is set to significantly enhance the Department&#8217;s capacity for practical training and research. The CORS technology will enable real-time GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning, which is crucial for advanced applications in surveying, environmental mapping, and other geospatial studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Lekan Oshindare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zainab Lawal The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA), Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, has officially commissioned a Continuous Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Center at the Department of Surveying&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18,11,17,7,13,10,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.futminna.edu.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}