SU Xinzhou, HUANG Shengxiang, YIN Qianqian

（1.School of Geodesy and Geomatics Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China）

National geomatics development strategy report has explicitly pointed out that modern geomatics technology system symbolized by informatization geomatics production and service should be completed before 2020[1].Informatization geomatics technology is developed and formed by the integration of cross-curricular interests of modern geomatics science and technology. It’s based on the digital geomatics system, socializes geomatics information and technology products and offers geomatics information security for informatization construction of 21st century in our country. Facing the development opportunities and challenges from the national informatization of geomatics system constructed, the geo spatial information science raised, the formation and development of geomatics industry and the national informatization construction supported by geospatial information. It’s an urgent task of today’s geomatics experiment education to cultivate informatization geomatics personnel with innovation.

Traditional experiment teaching mostly emphasized on the verification of basic theoretical knowledge of Natural Science while the modern experiment teaching not only means to achieve the aim of consolidating and verifying theoretical knowledge, but also needs to motivate the innovative consciousness, ability and spirit of educate,establish experiment teaching system based on design,creative and extended experiment, optimize the experiment teaching method, update the experiment teaching content, cultivate the innovative talents that accord with development in economy and progress in science and technology in new century, promote the development of education and science and technology and the improvement of knowledge innovation quotient.

1 The cognition of informatization geomatics innovative talents cultivating laws

In order to carry out the informatization geomatics education system, realizing the goal of cultivating the highquality, international and innovative talents, depending on the digital geomatics system, realizing the quickly getting and updating, intelligent processing and integrated management, network production and distribution service of geospatial information, realizing the fusion and value-added service of geospatial information resource,socializing the geomatics information and technical products and offering multiple-scale and multiple-form spatial information service are the development direction of the period of post-digital geomatics technology.Informatization geomatics technology mainly includes the global satellite positioning and navigation technology,satellite gravimetry technology, satellite altimetry technology, remote sensing technology, geography information systems technology, information highway and computer network technology and virtual reality technology, etc. With the development of the computer technology, communication technology, space remote sensing and satellite navigation and positioning, the informatization of geomatics system should answer the question that when and where, what has what changed(4W—when, where, what object and what change)automatically, intelligently and in real time and offer these space-time data at any time to everyone, serve for everything and communicate everywhere needed.

As to the above content of informatization geomatics,after the social survey on a large scale, the seminar for domestic university of geomatics engineering science and technology talent training mode and the research and analysis on the geomatics personnel training abroad changing characteristics, the unique cognition of informatization geomatics innovative talents cultivating laws can be concluded as follows:

1) Cultivating creative multi-skill talents that serve for all social requirement. Informatization geomatics personnel training based on geomatics basic theory uses the computer technology, network technology, satellite to earth observation technology and information system technology as tools. The curriculum emphasizes on wide caliber and thick basic while personnel training pays attention to technology fusion and combinatorial innovation.

2) Emphasizing the training of self-motivated and self-employed spirit. The informatization geomatics development trend is to realize the fusion and value-added service of geospatial information resources, socialize the geomatics information and technical products and offer multiple-scale and multiple-form spatial information service. It pays attention to develop students’ acute social service consciousness and responsibility and promote informatization geomatics entering the society and serving the public.

3) Students have the engineering practice ability of engaging in the spatial information technology and providing geomatics service for society. Informatization geomatics takes the quickly getting and updating,intelligent processing and integrated management,network production and distribution service of geospatial information as the principal part and involves lots of practice. So we ought to strengthen the integrated practice ability of space positioning and navigation, geographical information systems, remote sensing image processing and location-based service and set suff icient practical teaching modules.

4) Cultivation form is phase education, multi-level training and all-round development.

①Phase education: The freshmen and sophomores should be given comprehensive education and focused on the basic quality training. The juniors and seniors should be divided into different professional directions according to their interests and receive professional quality and ability cultivation targeted.

②Multi-level training: We should optimize training program continuously, reform of teaching contents,teaching methods and check methods comprehensively,highlight practical ability, expand students’ quality,encourage personality development and insist on the talent training mode that knowledge, ability and quality achieve dialectical unity to fulfill the multi-level demand for talents.

③All-round development: We should propel the training mode that combined study, research and production and cultivating mechanism that combined wide caliber,multi-discipline and multi-channel actively, strengthen international exchanges and cooperation and cultivate the all-round talents that can face up to challenge and have the ability of creating, innovating and pioneering.

2 The basic principles of informatization geomatics experiment teaching

1) Adhere to supporting the development of geomatics and spatial information career for the purposes.According to the urgent demand of geomatics and spatial information for the development of economic and society,we should solve the major scientific and technological problems that the development of geomatics and spatial information career faced up with, strive to break through the key technology, form the scientific and technological achievements of proprietary intellectual property rights,enhancement science and technology reserve and speed up the new high performance instrument development and industrialization process to offer powerful science and technology support for the development of geomatics and spatial information career.

2) Adhere to improving independent innovation ability for the core. We should always place improving independent innovation ability in an outstanding position of geomatics geographic information science and technology work, strengthen original innovation, integrated innovation and digestion and absorption innovation, overall improve geomatics and spatial information independent innovation ability and enhance core competence of supporting the future development of geomatics and spatial information.

3) Adhere to the combination of co-ordinating the deployment and making breakthroughs in key areas.Geomatics geographic information science and technology work need to offer science and technology support for near-term important geomatics engineering implementation and construction of informatization geomatics system and arrange major science and technology projects. At the same time, we also should take the longer view, with the goal of enhancing technology reserve and lead the future development, strengthen basic research and capacity building and break through the effectively key technology.

4) Adhere to the strategic thought that the talented person resources is the first resources. We should the concept that career development depends on science and technology and science and technology improvement depends on talents, respect intellectuals and innovation and cultivate a multi-level and high-quality team of talents in science and technology to provide strong talent support for technological innovations.

5) Adhere to the social participation and combination of study, research, production and using. We should give full play to the role of government to give macro guidance of the development of geomatics geographic information science and technology and build a favorable policy environment, establish and complete the geomatics geographic information science and technology innovation system that combined of the key labs and engineering centers tied to college, productive units and new and high technology enterprises to realize the incorporation of study,research, production and using.

3 The informatization geomatics experiment teaching system

1) The basic structure of geomatics engineering practice teaching system in the background of informatization geomatics. According to the difference of teaching content, there are several modes of teaching of compulsory experiments, limited choice experiments,optional experiments, practical aspects and extracurricular scientific activities[2]. Among these, professional basic experiments are the compulsory experiments; according to the series of experiments that draw out in the experiment teaching outline, the experiments that can be chosen by the students are the limited choice experiments; optional experiments are exploratory experimental projects that guided by the supervisors and student-oriented; practical aspects are set according to the course request, cover the teaching contents of four-year basic practices (experiment teaching), social practice (social service and social investigation), teaching practice (production practice and visit practice) and integrated practice (graduation design,curriculum design and extracurricular scientif ic activities);student research can be applied by students themselves and completed independently under the supervisor’s guidance to cultivate students’ scientific research ability. Then students can participate in the higher level of national or provincial and ministerial projects to widen sight, expand knowledge and improve ability (Figure 1).

Figure 1 The basic structure of geomatics engineering practice teaching system

With the goal of cultivating students’ experiment ability, scientific quality and innovative consciousness,we set hierarchically experimental teaching goal and teach students in accordance of their aptitude. We need to pay attention to the cultivation of students’ basic skills,strengthen the reformation of the experiment content and the construction of the hardware and advance the integrated designed, engineering practical and scientific research innovation experiments. We should adhere to the practical teaching idea, keep to the center of cultivating students’practical and innovative ability and study and structure the practice teaching system of phase education, multi-level advancing and all-round practical training[3,4]as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 The cultivation links of informatization experiment teaching

2) In the teaching system, according to the difference of the interests and ability and knowledge level of the geomatics engineering students, four levels’ experiment of fundamental, comprehensive and designing, engineering practical and scientif ic research innovative.

①Fundamental experimental teaching: They’re compulsory experiments and the contents include the horizontal and vertical control completed by 3D traversing,then digital mapping in the f ield and mapping with CASS software on computers at last. The goal is to put the experimental contents specif ied in the experiment teaching outline into effect, deepen the students’ grasp of the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills, cultivate the practical and analytical ability of students preliminarily and encourage the learning interest of students. We need to build a quality basic experimental teaching platform with the combination of advanced experimental facilities and self-designed devices.

②Comprehensive and designing experimental teaching: They’re compulsory experiments and the contents include the second-class precise leveling with the digital level in the f ield, the f ield data acquisition and data processing of GNSS horizontal control survey and navigation and geodesy calculation. This aspect is the advanced experiment with high difficulty and integrity based on the basic experiments. The goal is to cultivate the students to apply professional knowledge and the ability of integrated design and analysis of experiments.

③Engineering practical experimental teaching:The content is the combination of engineering facts and practice study, like bringing students to visit Three Gorges Dam, listen to the teaching of combination of the dam construction and monitor work of the front line of production from the engineering staffs. The goal is to improve and cultivate students the ability of solving engineering practical problems, expand knowledge scope and enhance the employability and competitiveness.

④Scientific research innovative experimental teaching: They’re selective experiments and mainly targets senior undergraduate. Students select experimental projects by themselves, set experimental plans, conduct experiments under teachers’ guidance and at last summary and analyze to get the conclusion. The goal is to offer students a good experimental research platform, improve their scientific research ability and cultivate their explored spirit and innovative ability.

4 Conclusions

Informatization geomatics experiment teaching brings new motive power to the innovation of cultivation modes for talents majoring in geomatics engineering and is a challenge for experimental teaching cultivation. It abandons the old mode and explores the new one and may have a long way to go. Thousands of junks sunk boat sail past the million trees ahead of the spring wood. We will practice, get to know and practice again to improve the level of informatization geomatics experiment teaching gradually, cultivate more talents to satisfy the requirement of new period and serve for the national geomatics development strategy.

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