ANALYSIS OF ARSC’S SURVEYING AND MAPPING MODE 
INTEGRATING AEROPHOTOGRAMMETRY,DIGITAL MAPPING 
AND GIS DATABASE ESTABLISHMENT 
Zhang Xinli 
Xi’an ARSC Information Industry Ltd, Surveying and Mapping Engineering Branch - 
zxlwj wj0613@sina.com 
Commission IV,WG IV/2 
KEY WORDS: Aerophotogrammetry, Digital Mapping, Database, Geography Information System, Extraction, Conversion 
ABSTRACT: 
With the work experiences of surveying and mapping production, technology designing and technology supervision, the author 
systematically summarizes the concrete working flow of ARSC’s modem surveying and mapping production mode, bringing forth 
ARSC’s high-tech preponderance as well as its independent innovation new achievements. 
1. GENERAL SITUATION 
ARSC has been founded for 43 years. Through the 43 years, a 
group of senior experts witness ARSC’s development, 
cultivating a technical team of young people, leading ARSC’s 
surveying and mapping technology moving upward to computer 
automatic mapping from traditional manual mapping. With the 
applications of digital technologies, ARSC’s surveying and 
mapping technology has gone up an era-acrossing leap, which 
reduces much burdensome field work. Based on 20 years 
surveying and mapping work experiences, the author discusses 
how ARSC, this gigantic surveying and mapping team, utilizes 
surveying and mapping high-tech and combines its independent 
innovation to realize ARSC’s modem surveying and mapping 
mode integrating aerophotogrammetry, digital mapping and GIS 
database establishment o With some recent years domestic and 
overseas surveying and mapping projects cases ARSC 
performed, the author illustrates the significant results brought 
by ARSC modem surveying and mapping mode and introduces 
ARSC’s independent development software, various map 
products (4D products), database achievements. 
In the view of impelling the technology development in the 
fields of photogrammetry, digital mapping, database 
establishment, and making technical exchanges as well as 
common study and improvement on the opening of the 21th 
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 
conference, the purpose of this thesis is making technical 
discussion and technical exchanges with domestic and overseas 
friends and experts of same trade, to enhance ARSC’s surveying 
and mapping level. 
2. ARSC MODERN SURVEYING AND MAPPING 
PRODUCTION MODE AND TECHNICAL WORKING 
FLOW 
2.1 Title ARSC Surveying and Mapping Production Scale 
Through 43 years, with the efforts of several generations of 
ARSC people, a great number of leading surveying and 
mapping technicians emerge up. So far the technical level, the 
scale of surveying and mapping capability and surveying and 
mapping facilities of ARSC are rare both in China and overseas 
surveying and mapping organizations, which receives many 
professional interviewers’ praises. There are 8 (eight) Chinese 
national surveying and mapping experts, 5(five) senior 
engineers of professorial rank, 126(one hundred and twenty six) 
senior engineers, 168(one hundred and sixty eight) engineers, 
and 210 (two hundred and ten) assistant engineers. The 
percentage of all technical talented persons (689 (six hundred 
and eight nine) persons) occupies 85% of the total staffs. ARSC 
owns the world leading and China leading surveying and 
mapping facilities: aerophotogrammetry equipment four sets 
(picture 1), GPS receiver numerous sets, Leica 530 GPS diplex 
signal receiver four sets, Leica 300 four sets, GPS diplex signal 
receiver four sets, 200S monochromatic signal receiver four sets, 
CR333 four sets, Leica NA 3003 digital level two sets, Zeiss Ni 
002 precision level two sets, Zeiss Ni007 precision level two 
sets, top intelligent surveying station numerous sets, Leica TC 
1102 two sets, Leica TC702 two sets, Leica TC500 total station 
four sets, Leica T2 theodolite numerous sets, Leica Di 3000 
laser rangefinder numerous sets. ARSC’s advanced software and 
hardware equipments: Intergraph SSK full digital 
photogrammetry work station thirty sets, China Si Wei JX-4C 
full digital photogrammetry work station four sets, Intergraph 
Imagestation work station one set. ARSC also holds Intergraph 
ISAT, Intergraph photoscan, Intergraph ISPM, Intergraph ISDM, 
Intergraph ISMT, Intergraph ISDC, Intergraph ISFC, Intergraph 
ISSD, Intergraph Orthpro, Intergraph I/RASC, Bentley 
Microstation J/V8, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Autocad 2004, 
ARSC surveying and mapping engineering branch MHMS. 
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