The College of Geomatics was established in 2008, formerly known as the Surveying Engineering Department founded in 1988, whose history can be traced back to a surveying group of the Mining Engineering Department when the University was established in 1958.In 1978, the College recruited its first undergraduates majoring in mine survey, from 1985, it began to jointly train postgraduates, and in 1990, it obtained the right to grant master's degree in engineering surveying, which made it the first unit in Northwest China to obtain the right to grant master's degree in surveying and mapping.The College obtained the right to grant a master's degree in the first-level discipline ofgeomaticsin 2005, and in the first-level discipline ofgeographyin 2010, and obtained the right to grant a doctor's degree in the first-level discipline ofgeomaticsin 2018.
As an independent school for over 30 years, the College has 4 undergraduate majors, including surveying and mapping engineering, geographic information science, physical geography and resource environment, and remote sensing science and technology, and has the right to grant a doctor's degree in the first-level discipline of geomatics (engineering), a master's degree in the first-level discipline of geography (science), and a degree of master of engineering in resources and environment (formerly surveying and mapping engineering).The College has become a teaching and research college with distinctively characteristic disciplines, reasonable professional structure, strong faculty, advanced experimental equipment and complete training chain of undergraduate, master and doctoral talents.
On June 1, 2008, the College of Geomatics was inaugurated
The College consists of 4 teaching departments: surveying and mapping engineering, geographic information science, physical geography and resource environment, and remote sensing science and technology, and 6 research institutes, including geospatial information engineering, geodetic data processing and application, mining subsidence and disaster management, digital (smart) city and urban safety, geographic big data and watershed ecology, as well as remote sensing and disaster monitoring.The College has provincial and ministerial teaching and research platforms such as Shaanxi Geospatial Information Engineering Research Center and Shaanxi Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information.The College has 16 industry-university-institute training bases, including Data Processing Center for Geodetic Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Xi'an Institute of Investigations and Surveying, and Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Bureau of China National Administration of Coal Geology.
The College currently has 80 teachers and staffers, and a dynamic, efficient and lean faculty.Wang Renxiang, a well-known photogrammetry expert and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Gong Jianya, Dean of School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering of Wuhan University and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, are dual-employed academicians by the College.Many well-known experts and scholars in the industry such as academician Yang Yuanxi, Deputy Chief Designer of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, Yao Yibin, Dean of School of Geodesy and Geomatics of Wuhan University, and Li Bofeng, Dean of College of Surveying and Geo-informatics of Tongji University are hired as part-time professors.The College currently has 1 member of the Teaching Steering Committee in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, 1 top-notch professional and technical talent at the provincial and ministerial levels, 11 professors, 24 associate professors and 26 lecturers with doctors accounting for 80.7% of the teachers.
Over the past 5 years, the College of Geomatics has undertaken 20 high-level research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Technology R&D Program and national defense construction projects; won the title of provincial Excellent Resource Sharing for 3 courses, 2 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards and 1 provincial teaching team award; won 2 national awards and 12 provincial and ministerial awards; published 121 academic papers, including 68 SCI- and EI-indexed papers, and 15 textbooks and monographs; commercialized 8 achievements in total and created hundreds of millions of social and economic benefits.
The College has trained nearly 6,000 professionals in geomatics and geographic information for the country, who work in the industries and research institutes of geomatics, geological information, railway, highway, water conservancy, electric power, geology, forestry, land, construction, coal, education, urban rail transit, meteorology, security, IT and others, engaging in basic surveying and mapping, engineering survey and management, resource survey, environmental disaster monitoring, real estate survey, digital city and the development and application of geographic information software.Over the past 5 years, the initial employment rate of graduates has exceeded 97%.
