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