Tab. 7 Courses in urban - rural surveying, planning and management
Number of hours Level
Cone Ram Lectures Practical A B C D
English (writing , reading , speaking , translation) 240 X X
Dialectics of nature 80 x x
Operations research 80 x x
Fuzzy set theory 60 x x
Principles of systems engineering 60 x x
Basic photogrammetry 30 20 x x x x
Aerial photography and remote sensing techniques 36 14 x x x x
Cadastral surveys 36 14 x X
Urban/rural airphoto interpretation 40 60 x x X X
Urban organzation and planning 30 10 X X
Urban/rural planning and management 40 10 x x
(including physical aspects)
Personal compuetr AT database princeples 50 70 X X x x
Computer aided cartography 30 40 x x x
Urban/rural ecology and enviromnental planning 28 12 x X X
Urban/rural planning information systems 40 60 X X
(USEMAP and MASMAP)
Urban/rural economic information systems 30 10 x x
Municipal information systems 30 10 x M
Earth resources information systems 30 10 x x
A B C D
Case study (Hangzhou) two three one
M. Sc. weeks months year
University; WTUSM (Cooperation with ITC)
4. Facilities, Teachers and Students
In regard to training purpose and type of education,
the the
universities. However, the actual status, in many
facilities are very different beween
cases, can meet the needs of essential practical
teaching, Some simple pieces of equipment, such as
stereoscopes, transferscopes and light tables, can be
supplied to nearly every student. In photogrammetry
and remote sensing departments, every student can
arrange to have several hours for practical operation
of high precision
including analytical plotters. In recent years, Chinese
of photogrammetric plotters
institutions have purchased a certain amount of digital
image processing equipment, among which there are
about 60 sets such as DIPLX (Canada) of I? S(United
States). Now, more than 10 universities are equipped
with digital image processing systems, both on
workstation and PC computers.
Nearly all the universities offering remote sensing
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courses have good teaching environments, such as
classrooms and television demonstration tools. and
possess strong teams for teaching basic courses, e. g.
mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography and
comprter science. Through several years of teaching
and research in remote sensing, the teaching staffs
have already gathered experience. About 30 percent
of the remote sensing lecturers in the key universities
have been abroad to acquire advanced knowledge of
training. Many distinguished experts from abroad
have been
universities and research institutes.
invited to give lectures in Chinese
At present, more than one hundred universities and
colleges have opended courses about remote sensing
technology. Among them the Wuhan Technical
University of Surveying and Mapping, Zhengzhou
Institute of Surveying and Mapping and South - West
Jiaotong University have estallished departmant of
Photogrammetry and Remste sensing with about 1000
students, 50 Post - graduate students and 20 doctor