Advanced Seminars in the Field of Remote Sensing
With the ratification of Education Ministry, WTUSM had held a lot of advanced seminars on "The Integrated Application of RS, GIS and GPS" from 1994 to now. The celebrated academicians and doctor mentors both inside and outside China are the teachers to cultivate the academic cadremen and the subject leading men. It is of high level, high standard and high efficiency. In 1999, Nanjing University has held an advanced seminar on "The Development of Remote Sensing and Its Application in Geoscience". All the 12 lecturers are overseas Chinese scholars with foreign citizens who have achieved a great deal in the field of remote sensing.In 1998, there was a remote sensing argument meeting for the youth in Dalian, China. The young arguers are from WTUSM, Beijing University, Remote Sensing Institution of Chinese Science Research Academy, Forestry Science Academy, Beijing Normal College and so on. They had argued on some important oriented issues as the development of remote sensing, the industrialization of remote sensing and the application of remote sensing.On the basis of this meeting, in 1999, there will be a meeting of "Chinese Remote Sensing Argument Meeting for the Youth in 1999" in Hong Kong.

Remote Sensing Education

• WTUSM is a key university in the field of remote sensing in China. Master’s and Doctor’s degrees can be awarded here. It is a branch of the National Center of Remote Sensing in Wuhan. Thousands upon thousands of undergraduate students, masters, doctors and foreign students in recent years are fostered here.
• Beijing University
  It has some courses related to remote sensing, such as, “Remote Sensing Base and Image Interpretation Theory”, “Remote Sensing Geology”, “Atmosphere Remote Sensing and Remote Surveying”, “Meterological Satellite and Satellite Image Analysis”,“the Theories, Methods and Applications on Remote Sensing”. At the same time, the master degree and doctor degree can be conferred in some specialties related to remote sensing.
• North Jiao Tong University
  It has courses of “Remote Sensing Technology” and “Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing”. Master’s degree is conferred in “Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing”.
• In addition, some Chinese universities and institutes.such as China Geological University, Tong Ji University, Qingdao Ocean University , Beijing Mining University and the Institute of Remote Sensing Application , have set courses on remote sensing technology.Master’s and Doctor’s degrees can be conferred in these Universities or Institutes.
• The social demand for advanced personnel undertaking RS’s research and application is markedly increasing.According to statistic, there are only 100,000 professionals who are engaging in RS in China , but some specialists forecast that there must have 700,000 ones at least to meet the need of the social demand.As a result , the universities and colleges enlarge the size of recruit students and the students increase 3 ~ 4 times than before , so does the other education , such as TV education, adult education , night school.

Fundamental Teaching Conditions in Remote Sensing

• New teaching tools in RS
  In recent years , CAI is greatly improved. For some content of Remote Sensing courses , it’s very difficult to exposition in class by orally , but charts , modes , slide and film can be helpful.For its vividness and operability , computer aid tool is welcome to students very much. For this reason , many universities have building several multi-functions classrooms which are equipped with computer , large screen projection instrument , wired television system and recorder , etc.Their application has improved teaching effect in class much more.Many CAI coursewares of high quality on RS have been developed and applied in teaching in China.We have produced many video types , for instance, “the Theory of RS”,“Image Processing of RS”and “the Theory of GIS”.The union of university computer network—Chinese Education and Research Network (CERNET) and INTERNET provides teachers and students more comfortable environment for retrieving data.communication and a distant-ranging international interactive education.
• Teachers
  The teachers are both the organizers of teaching and the chief partners of discipline construction.As the development of RS is more and more faster , the component and structure of teacher contigents have been adjusted, and the rate of young teachers with higher professional titles is raised , whom play key part in teaching principal RS courses , compiling new textbooks and carrying out scientific research works.We have a teacher contingent with high quality in RS discipline , more than 20% of them are with doctor degrees and 60% with master degrees.

References

• Shi Youyu, Hao Xiangyang, 1998.áá'98 FIG Commission 2 Seminar, Wuhan P.R.Chinaññ: The Practice of Discipline Construction of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.pp. 32-39.December, 1998
• Jiang Xin.Ning Jinsheng.1998.áá’98 FIG Commission 2 Seminar, Wuhan P.R.Chinaññ: the Actuality and Expectation of CAI in Our School.pp. 151-157. December, 1998
• Liu Yanfang.Li Deren.1998.áá’98 FIG Commission 2 Seminar, Wuhan P.R.Chinaññ: Quality Assurance System Based on Optimized Processes.pp. 224-234.December, 1998