The 2020 Mount Everest Elevation Survey, organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Administration of Sport of China and the government of Tibet Autonomous Region, was officially launched on April 30 at the Everest Base Camp. The Mount Everest Elevation Survey aims to accurately measure Everest Elevation by comprehensively using various traditional and modern surveying and mapping technologies such as GNSS satellite survey, precision leveling and quasi-geoid refinement. It is a comprehensive surveying and mapping project representing the development of national surveying and mapping science and technology.
Wu Guangwei, Li Feizhan, Sun Wenliang, He Zihao and Wang Wei, alumni of our School of Surveying and Mapping and members of the First National Survey Brigade of the Ministry of Natural Resources, participated in the survey. The five alumni undertook the tasks of rendezvous survey and unmanned aerial vehicle aerial photography respectively in this survey. They cracked numerous obstacles in the environment of alpine, anoxic and rapidly changing weather and successfully pushed forward various tasks. They demonstrated the fearless spirit of surveyors and expressed their love and loyalty to surveying and mapping through actions.
