The Remote Sensing education in China1
Cheng jichen
The Department of Technical Training of NRSC
Shi shimin
Remote Sensing Application Center of University
Xu xiru
The Institute Of Remote Sensing Technology of Peking University
Review
When remote sensing technology is going ahead rapidly in or country, remote sensing education is gaining its own momentum too. We start remote sensing education concurrently with other projects of remote sensing in China. From 1975 to 1980 sixteen short courses were held in Peking University, each on lasted 1-3 months long. They did a great deal of propaganda and popularization of remote sensing technology. About 3,000 trainees took in these short courses, most of them had become a mainstay of productive units, research institutes and universities. The education program had greatly promoted development of remote sensing in China.
Our government had recognized that the remote sensing technology can not be developed without enough high level professors, engineers at all. So remote sensing education has been emphasized in many ways in our country. Therefore the Department of technical training of NRSC had been established. The united remote sensing application center of Universities was built by the State Education Commission. The Agricultural Remote Sensing Training Center was organized by Ministry of Agriculture. A special remote sensing training organization for city planning was established too, by The State Survey and Mapping Bureau up to now, more than one hundred Universities and opened courses of remote sensing and concerned subjects. There are at least 4,000-5,000 technicians to receive general remote sensing education each year. The remote sensing education in our country goes in many ways, which contains university education, Master degree study and doctorate programs. The on-job training, senior middle school education and special short course are also included.
In recent year, the special technical training for Asia region had been
successfully held by us. More than ten training materials and text
books had been published. We had established dozens of well equipped
laboratories equipped for remote sensing education. All in all the education
system of remote sensing had taken its form in our country.
It is a general tendency of development of modern remote sensing technology to combine remote sensing data with information system. So the knowledge concerned information system has been included into our courses. The total courses contain remote sensing physics. digital image processing for remote sensing, optical processing of remote sensing image, the principal of remote sensing image visual interpretation , infrared remote sensing, micro-wave remote sensing, remote sensing mapping, areophotography , remote sensing geology , remote sensing oceanography, agricultural remote sensing, soil remote sensing, vegetation remote sensing ( including forestry remote sensing), hydrology remote sensing, and so on. In recent year, computer language, data format, data base, information system, artificial intelligence, and knowledge engineering are also required for postgraduates.
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