School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology

Overview

 

The School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology of Nanjing Tech University was established in August 2010, and its school history can be traced back to the Tongji School of Medicine and Engineering in 1915. In 1954, Nanjing Architectural Engineering School established a surveying major; and in 1980, Nanjing Architectural Engineering College began to recruit undergraduates majoring in engineering surveying. The college consists of the Department of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, the Department of Geographic Information Engineering, the Department of Remote Sensing Science and Technology, and the Experimental Teaching Center. It has the Jiangsu Provincial Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Experiment Teaching and Practice Education Center, the PIE Remote Sensing Software Teaching Base and the Geospatial Information Research Center of Nanjing Tech University. The Geospatial Information Research Center consists of the Institute of Precision Engineering and Industrial Surveying, the Institute of Satellite Navigation and Positioning Applications, the Institute of Geographic Information Engineering, the Institute of Remote Sensing and Image Processing, and the Institute of Spatial Information Comprehensive Disaster Reduction. Cooperated with Suzhou Industrial Park Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Information Ltd to build the Suzhou Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering Technology Research Center. Cooperated with Guangzhou Zhonghaida Satellite Positioning Ltd to build a joint laboratory of satellite navigation and positioning.

The college has 52 faculty members, including 7 professors, 16 associate professors and senior engineers, and 18 doctoral and master tutors. The college has four undergraduate majors: Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Geographic Information Science, Geospatial Information Engineering and Remote Sensing Science and Technology. The school has more than 700 undergraduate students and more than 70 graduate students.

The college attaches great importance to scientific research and has achieved fruitful research results. After years of development, research directions such as spatial geodetic surveying and surveying engineering, smart city and comprehensive disaster mitigation, photogrammetry and remote sensing have been formed. In recent years, it has undertaken or participated in more than 120 scientific research projects such as the National 863 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangsu Province, and the Key Project of Nanjing Science and Technology Research. It developed and completed the "City 3D Virtual System", "Expressway Emergency Rescue Decision Support System", "Shipbuilding Precision Measurement System", and "Earthquake Disaster Quick Report System for Large and Medium Cities", among others. It has obtained more than 60 software copyrights and patents, 7 national and provincial science and technology progress awards, and published nearly 300 papers.

The college attaches great importance to the cultivation of undergraduate talents and is student-centered. It established a modern surveying and mapping geographic information technology innovation talent training system for the civil construction industry, and remarkable results have been achieved in the cultivation of undergraduate and postgraduate talents. Students have high comprehensive quality and strong scientific research and innovation ability, and have won many excellent awards in various competitions within Jiangsu Province and across the country. The employment situation of graduates is good; the initial strict employment rate of 2020 is 85.61%, the total employment rate is 94.96%, the surveying and mapping engineering is 95%, and the geographic information science is 93.22%. Among them, 49 people went to colleges and universities at home and abroad, and the admission rate was 35.25%.

 

Research Areas/Fields

1. Spatial Geodetic and Surveying Engineering

Main research fields:

(1) precision engineering measurement and deformation analysis of construction (structure);

(2) theoretical geodetic survey and its application;

(3) satellite navigation and positioning technology and its application, etc.

Feature:

A generalized global least squares extension algorithm is proposed; Established a strict conversion model of engineering measurement datum and a high-precision deformation monitoring model and method; Constructed the inversion model of Earth/Moon gravity field, internal structure and crustal motion based on gravity data; An analysis method and model of soil environmental parameters based on GNSS-IR are proposed.

Advantages:

Received 1 second prize of China Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award, and won 1 first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award as the main participant; won 5 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and published more than 20 SCI/EI papers.

2. Smart Cities and Integrated Disaster Mitigation

Main research fields:

(1) Urban spatial information disaster reduction integration and engineering application;

(2) Urban building isolation and shock absorption technology and intelligent diagnosis method;

(3) Urban spatiotemporal data mining and spatial planning management.

Features:

The fusion, extraction and emergency response methods of multi-source heterogeneous earthquake disasters are proposed, and the earthquake damage vulnerability assessment method and intelligent diagnosis technology of urban mass buildings based on structural elastic-plastic theory and Internet of Things geographic information are proposed, based on spatiotemporal big data. Urban information analysis and optimization methods of land and space layout, etc.

Advantages:

Owns the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation; won 1 second prize of China Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award, 5 National Natural Science Foundation Projects, and published more than 30 SCI/EI papers.

3. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Main research fields:

(1) high-resolution remote sensing image analysis and feature recognition;

(2) remote sensing terrain modeling and geoscience analysis;

(3) integrated software and hardware UAV surveying and mapping technology.

Features:

Proposed a remote sensing image analysis framework and ground object recognition model integrating superpixels and deep networks; established an open source DEM error modeling and remote sensing geoscience information analysis model based on remote sensing information sources; carried out UAV multi-angle oblique photogrammetry and based on Research on real-time processing of on-orbit measurement data of FPGA chip.

Advantages: 1 Vice President of Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program", 3 National Natural Science Foundation Projects, more than 20 SCI/EI papers published in authoritative journals such as IEEE TGRS.

Eminent Professors

Prof.

Jinghai Xu

 

Prof.

Mingfeng Li

 

Prof.

Guangyun Zhang

 

Prof.

Junqiang Gao

 

Prof.

Youfu Dong

 

Prof.

Huaxing Lu

 

Prof.

Wenlai Ji

 

Assoc. Prof. Chanfang Shu

 

Assoc. Prof.

Bin Wang

 Assoc. Prof.

Jinda Shao

Assoc. Prof.

Sanzhi Liu

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof.

Baohong Feng

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof.

Jizhong Wu

 

Assoc. Prof.

DongJin Wu

 

Assoc. Prof.

Yunpeng Zhang

 

Assoc. Prof.

Zhenzhou Cao

 

Assoc. Prof.

Hua Shao

 

Lector

Guocai Zheng

 

Lector

Jisheng Li

 

Lector

Weibiao Yan

 

Lector

Junjian Lin

 

Lector

Jinbiao Lu

 

Lector

Jianxin Jiao

 

Lector

Wei Wu

 

Lector

Ding Tan

 

Dr.

Wenbo Ma

 

Dr.

Yintao Shi

 

Dr.

Dongliang Guan

 

Dr.

Qifeng Zhuang

 

Dr.

Shuai Wang

 

Dr.

Xin Zhao

 

Dr.

Wenhao Li

 

Dr.

Yu Chen

 

Dr.

Yan Xia

 

Dr.

Nan Shen

 

Dr.

Shanshan Li

 

Dr.

Haixing Li

 

Dr.

Dengfeng Xie

 

Dr.

Nan Mo

 

Dr.

Rongting Zhang

 

Dr.

Jinqi Gong

 

Dr.

Ge Shi

 

 

 

 

 

Departments & Institutions

1. Department of Surveying and Mapping Engineering

Professional development history:

The history of Nanjing Tech University's surveying and mapping engineering major can be traced back to Tongji Medical Engineering School in 1915. In 1954, the former Nanjing Architectural Engineering School established the surveying major; in 1980, the former Nanjing Architectural Engineering College began to recruit undergraduates majoring in Engineering Surveying; in 1989, the professional name was changed to Surveying Engineering; in 1999, the professional name was changed to Surveying and Mapping Engineering.

Scale of students:

Nanjing Tech University's surveying and mapping engineering major recruits students from all over the country. The annual enrollment scale is 3 classes with about 90 students. Currently, there are 325 students in total.

Conditions for running a school: Surveying and mapping engineering is a school-level brand major, with 28 full-time teachers, including 2 professors, 14 associate professors, 1 doctoral supervisor, 15 master supervisors, 14 doctors, 1 on-the-job doctoral student, and 7 masters. Teachers with senior professional titles account for 57.1% of the total. There are 6 double-qualified teachers with qualifications such as registered surveyors and land appraisers; among the full-time teachers, there is 1 senior member of the Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping; 1 outstanding young backbone teacher in Jiangsu Province; 4 directors and committee members of the National Professional Society. The School has published 6 professional textbooks, such as "GPS Positioning Technology and Its Application", "Engineering Monitoring Technology and Its Application". The professional practice teaching platform is the Jiangsu Provincial Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Experimental Teaching and Practice Education Center. The central laboratory has an indoor area of nearly 800m2It has a variety of surveying and mapping and 3S technology experimental equipment and software, such as 3D laser scanners, image total stations, GPS receivers, gyro total stations, large-scale plotters, and underground pipeline detectors, with a total value of more than 10 million yuan; On the Jiangpu campus, there is a surveying field practice base covering about 4km2 of the campus and surrounding areas, and a wind and rain surveying practice field and a college student innovation experiment base. It has established 15 professional off-campus practice bases in cooperation with enterprises and institutions such as Jiangsu Academy of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Nanjing Surveying and Mapping Research Institute Ltd.

 

2. Department of Geographic Information Engineering

The major of geographic information science is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary major that integrates surveying and mapping, geography, computer science and cartography in the 1980s. The main research contents include spatial data collection and database construction, electronic map mapping, development and application of geographic system modeling, automatic interpretation of remote sensing images, positioning, navigation and application, etc. This major mainly cultivates basic theories, basic knowledge and basic skills in geographic information systems and cartography, remote sensing technology, and navigation and positioning technology, and is able to engage in scientific research or teaching work in scientific research institutions or institutions of higher learning. The major is also able to engage in GIS-related government departments, financial institutions, companies, universities, and planning and design institutes in the fields of cities, regions, resources, environment, transportation, population, housing, land, disasters, infrastructure and planning management. Senior professionals in applied research, technology development, production management and administrative management.

The characteristics of our school's geographic information science major:

1. The geographic information science major of our school was established earlier, and we pay close attention to domestic and foreign development trends and changes in talent training needs. In teaching activities, it not only pays attention to the systematic study of students' basic concepts, basic theories and knowledge systems, but also highlights the comprehensive cultivation of students' self-learning ability, hands-on practice ability and comprehensive innovation ability. We strive for the all-round development of students in moral, intellectual and physical, and the comprehensive quality of students continues to improve.

2. The Geographic Information Science major of our school is closely combined with the background of our school's civil and architectural engineering disciplines in talent training. The goal of talent training is mainly for the production and management departments of surveying and mapping, land, urban construction, real estate, transportation, electricity, communication, environmental protection, water conservancy and other production and management departments to engage in data database construction, applied research, technology development, production and administrative management related to spatial information technology and other senior engineering and technical personnel. Graduates are welcomed and praised by employers in the civil construction industry.

3On the basis of improving the professional training plan and course teaching plan, focus on the integration of the teaching content and teaching system of professional basic courses and professional courses. Strengthen the rationalization of professional course modules. Ensure the cohesion and integration of relevant courses in teaching content. Compilation and publication of supporting teaching materials and practical teaching materials with equal emphasis on theory and practice.

4. Relying on our school's GIS student study club (referred to as GIS study club), in talent training, it pays attention to the role of students at different learning stages in their professional learning. Actively create learning conditions and learning atmosphere for autonomous learning and innovative practice. Established a good cooperative relationship with the production unit, established a teaching practice base, through various practical activities. Provide a platform for cultivating students' professional practical skills and innovation ability.

5. The undergraduate tutor system and the undergraduate innovation training system have been established. Provide a variety of incentives and reward mechanisms for students to actively participate in various professional skills competitions. Students have made remarkable achievements in innovation and practice, and achieved excellent results in many influential professional skills competitions.

Graduate employment scope:

Graduates can engage in data collection, library building, mapping, applied research and technology development related to spatial information technology in the production and management departments of surveying and mapping, land, urban construction, real estate, transportation, electric power, communications, environmental protection, water conservancy and other production and management departments. They can also engage in teaching, research and management in government departments, schools and research institutes. Graduates have the characteristics of wide employment, strong adaptability and large social demand.

3. Department of Remote Sensing Science and Technology

Professional Profile:

Remote sensing science, as a new interdisciplinary subject, is the core component of earth observation technology and one of the indispensable professional directions for the development of surveying and mapping disciplines. The remote sensing science and technology major of our school began to recruit students in 2019. In terms of personnel training, it is closely combined with the school's civil engineering discipline background, focusing on the training of engineering practice ability, and aiming at cultivating outstanding remote sensing talents. Paying attention to the joint training of schools and enterprises, and striving to build a talent training system for the whole chain of production, education and research. At the same time, it pays attention to the cross-integration with the new generation of information technology, so as to improve the students' ability and employment competitiveness in an all-round way.

Professional Features:

Vibrant, facing the country's major strategic needs. The major of Remote Sensing Science and Technology is aimed at applying new technologies and new means to dynamically perceive the needs of natural resources in the reform of the national natural resource management system. A corresponding talent training system has been established, and a scientific research framework aimed at intelligent perception and monitoring of natural resources has been constructed. The atmosphere of students and teachers of the new majors are full of vigor and vitality.

The remote sensing science and technology major adheres to the concept of "intelligence + remote sensing" in the process of student training, and implements the training concept from courses, teaching, research, and practice.

Employment prospects are broad. The new system of natural resource management and the construction of smart cities have provided broad employment space for graduates majoring in remote sensing science and technology. Major Internet companies are also gradually recruiting a large number of compound professionals with information technology and surveying, mapping and remote sensing technology. The major of remote sensing science and technology will closely follow the needs of the country and the market, and build a learning platform that combines theory, technology and practice.

Education Programs

1. Department of Surveying and Mapping Engineering

Professional talent training goals:

This major aims to cultivate people who meet the development needs of the information society and the era of knowledge economy and have good basic knowledge of humanities, nature and society. Acquire good scientific literacy and lifelong learning ability; master the collection of ground, underground and spatial 3D data; precision engineering surveying and deformation monitoring; spatial geodesy, digital photogrammetry and remote sensing, cartography and geographic information systems Theories and knowledge. Possess good political, business and humanistic qualities and meet the needs of economic, technological and social development in the 21st century. Innovative senior engineering and technical personnel who can engage in national basic surveying and mapping construction, urban and engineering construction surveying and mapping, geographic information system design and application, land and resources survey and management, and surveying and mapping in the fields of national economy.

The major expects graduates to achieve the following goals within 5 years:

(1) Be able to engage in production work such as surveying and mapping engineering data collection, processing and management, and be competent for the position of project leader;

(2) Have employment competitiveness in surveying and mapping engineering and related fields, be able to become the backbone of the unit's business, and have the ability to obtain intermediate technical titles and industry qualifications;

(3) Have good humanities and social science literacy, social responsibility and engineering professional ethics, and be able to comprehensively consider the influencing factors of economy, environment, law, safety, health, ethics and other aspects in the work process;

(4) Able to keep pace with the times, expand their knowledge and ability through continuous learning, have the ability to enter the postgraduate level study, and have the ability to undertake research and development tasks;

(5) Have an international vision and cross-cultural communication and cooperation ability, be able to play a specific role in the team and have the ability to assume leadership roles.

Professional graduation requirements:

(1) Have a solid foundation of mathematics, computer and other knowledge, master the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills of surveying and mapping science;

(2) Have the ability to apply the acquired knowledge to analyze surveying and mapping engineering problems and obtain valid conclusions;

(3) Have the ability to engage in surveying and mapping engineering design, spatial data collection, processing and related information management at different stages of various engineering construction;

(4) Be able to conduct research on complex engineering problems such as digital mapping and precision engineering measurement, propose experimental plans, analyze and interpret data, and obtain effective conclusions through comprehensive analysis;

(5) Ability to skillfully use advanced surveying and mapping instruments, develop and apply surveying and mapping software to solve surveying and mapping engineering problems;

(6) Be able to evaluate the impact on the society of surveying and mapping work such as real estate surveying and mapping, construction (structure) engineering safety monitoring, and urban pipeline surveying, and understand the responsibilities that should be assumed;

(7) Have humanities and social science literacy and a sense of social responsibility, be able to understand and abide by engineering professional ethics and norms in the practice of surveying and mapping projects, and perform responsibilities;

(8) Ability to assume the roles of individuals, team members and leaders in teams in a multidisciplinary context;

(9) Be able to effectively communicate and communicate with industry peers and the public on complex surveying and mapping engineering issues, including writing reports and design manuscripts, making presentations, expressing clearly or responding to instructions;

(10) Have a certain international perspective and be able to communicate and communicate in a cross-cultural context;

(11) Be familiar with various surveying and mapping guidelines, policies and regulations, understand and master the basic knowledge of similar majors, understand and master the principles and methods of surveying and mapping engineering project management, and be able to apply them in a multidisciplinary environment;

(12) Have the awareness of autonomous learning and lifelong learning, and have the ability to continuously learn and adapt to professional and social development.

Quality of talent training:

In the past three years, the degree-granting rate of students in this major is 85.71% to 98.54%, the wide-caliber employment rate is 100%, and the graduate study rate is 20%. All kinds of graduates trained by this major are active in enterprises, institutions and scientific research institutes in the field of surveying, mapping and geographic information in my country, and graduates are in short supply. Some of the graduates have become one of the top ten professional models of state-owned enterprises in the country, some have become distinguished professors and well-known professors of the Ministry of Education, and some have become the chairman of the company with a successful career. Many people have won the National Construction Engineering Luban Award, the Map Peixiu Award and the National Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Technology Progress Award.

The degree of satisfaction with the quality of personnel training in this major is relatively high, and the satisfaction and basic satisfaction in the comprehensive evaluation of students’ professional satisfaction have reached 95%; the employer’s satisfaction with the comprehensive evaluation of professionalism, professional ethics, professional skills, teamwork, and work performance of graduates of this major 100%, of which 82% are satisfied and 18% are relatively satisfied.

2. Department of Geographic Information Engineering

Professional training requirements:

1. Through the study of surveying and mapping courses, master the principles and technical methods of spatial data collection such as digital mapping, photogrammetry, navigation and positioning technology, and remote sensing image processing, and be familiar with basic skills such as spatial data mapping and database construction;

2. Through the study of geography and geographic information science courses, master the basic concepts, basic theories and processing methods of geographic information technology, and have the ability to use geographic information software platforms to solve practical application problems;

3. Through the study of computer and geographic information science courses, master the basic principles and common methods of geographic information system software design, and have strong development ability of thematic geographic information system and network geographic information system;

4. Through practical links such as graduation practice and graduation design, cultivate a strong comprehensive ability to independently solve practical and complex problems using professional knowledge and technology of geographic information.

5. Through systematic theoretical study and practical exercise, students are trained to have independent literature retrieval and information acquisition capabilities, understand the theoretical frontiers and development trends in the field of spatial informatics, and have certain scientific research and practical ability.

3. Department of Remote Sensing Science and Technology

Professional training goals:

The students trained by this major can achieve the following career and professional achievements through their own study and work training about 5 years after graduation:

1. Be able to engage in the acquisition, processing, analysis and application of information related to remote sensing engineering, be able to become the backbone of the unit's business, be competent for the position of project leader, and have the ability to obtain intermediate technical titles and industry qualifications;

2. Be able to track cutting-edge technologies in remote sensing information engineering and related fields, have certain research and engineering innovation capabilities, and comprehensively apply basic knowledge of natural science and engineering and modern remote sensing science and technology to provide systematic and innovative solutions to complex engineering projects in the field of remote sensing.

3. Have a sense of social responsibility, understand and abide by engineering professional ethics, and be able to comprehensively consider economic, environmental, legal, safety, health, ethics and other influencing factors in the work process;

4. Have a healthy body and mind and good humanities and social science literacy, able to communicate effectively with colleagues, professional clients and the public, able to play a specific role in the team and have the ability to assume leadership roles;

5. Able to keep pace with the times, expand their knowledge and abilities through continuous learning, adapt to professional and social development, have a certain international vision and cross-cultural communication and cooperation capabilities.

Professional graduation requirements:

After graduation, the students trained by this major can acquire the following knowledge, ability and literacy through training and training at the undergraduate level:

1. Master solid basic theories and knowledge in mathematics, physics, geography, etc., master the basic knowledge of remote sensing science and technology, and be able to apply it to the field of surveying and mapping remote sensing engineering;

2. Be able to comprehensively use the professional theoretical knowledge of remote sensing science and technology to research and test complex engineering problems in the field of remote sensing and conduct application analysis, so as to obtain effective conclusions;

3. Be able to design solutions to complex engineering problems in the field of surveying, mapping and remote sensing based on the knowledge of remote sensing science and technology and relevant practical experience, the design is innovative, and can comprehensively consider economic, environmental, legal, safety, health and other factors;

4. Be able to conduct research on complex engineering problems in surveying, mapping and remote sensing based on the basic theory and research methods of remote sensing science, and have the ability to analyze, express, solve and apply problems;

5. Be able to use computers and various digital devices for modern information exchange; for complex projects in the field of remote sensing, have the ability to make full use of modern Internet information resources to obtain advanced knowledge, data resources and the latest research progress in the field of remote sensing technology;

6. Be able to conduct reasonable analysis based on the relevant knowledge background of surveying, mapping and remote sensing information engineering, evaluate the impact of professional engineering practices and solutions to complex engineering problems on society, health, safety, law and culture, and understand the responsibilities that should be assumed;

7. Be able to comprehensively use the basic theory of remote sensing science and technology to study the impact of complex projects on environmental pollution, ecological civilization, and sustainable social development;

8. Possess high ideological and moral quality, and have a strong sense of social responsibility; master certain basic knowledge of humanities and social sciences, and have good humanistic quality; understand the policies, regulations, and industry standards in the field of surveying, mapping, and remote sensing, and abide by them in engineering practice Engineering ethics and codes;

9. Have good physical and psychological quality; have teamwork spirit, and have the ability to lead others and be led by others;

10. Be proficient in reading professional journals and conducting literature retrieval in foreign languages, have preliminary foreign language communication and scientific writing skills; have the ability to write analysis reports and design manuscripts, and have certain speech, presentation and discussion skills; good at communicating with communicate with others;

11. Understand and master the principles of surveying and mapping remote sensing information engineering management and economic decision-making methods, and be able to apply them in a multidisciplinary environment; have certain ability to organize projects and participate in project management.

12. Possess good self-study habits and abilities, and have the awareness of lifelong learning; have the ability to independently analyze, explore, and practice remote sensing science and technology-related content.

Contact Information

ghuac@njtech.edu.cn

025-58139842

Postcode: 211800

Address: No. 30, Puzhu South Road, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province