将地理位置达到更高的水平
GIM International Interviews Professor Deren Li
武汉大学正在开门。李教授德伦·李教教授，是中国第一家教育机械研究所的领先人物之一，希望从其他国家学习，同时也向世界其他地方提供他的专业知识。他是一家天然网络，几十年来加强合作，以普通的方式 - 以及摄影测量和遥感 - 尤其是更高的水平。188金宝搏特邀Gim International谈到了中国和全球地理学的图标，了解行业的进步。
Wuhan University has much more influence on geomatics worldwide than many people recognise. Do you agree?
We train many young people: every year we have around 600 undergraduates and 400 master students together with 200 PhD students. After leaving Wuhan University, they go on to work all over the world. Many of the best students go to Japan, in co-operation with professor Shunji Murai from Tokyo University, or to Australia where I work with professor John Trinder from the University of New South Wales in Melbourne. In previous years I sent a lot of them to Europe as well, especially after I myself graduated from Stuttgart University in Germany in 1985. I made new contacts in the United States through attending the ASPRS conference in Baltimore in 1989, which led to student exchanges in America from then on too – not just in surveying and mapping but also in GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing. Nowadays, most students prefer the US, with many of them staying there after they graduate and starting small companies. So in that sense it’s true that Wuhan University has a lot of influence worldwide.
您如何觉得许多出国的学生将如何帮助外地地理信息部门增长？
我对它感到非常积极。它将成长为强大的网络，不仅限于中国，而且是在全球范围内的。着名的Karl Krauss曾经在1996年在维也纳的伊斯普拉大会期间对我说过，“不要担心你在全球各地工作的学生。它将建立武汉大学的声誉作为世界领先的大学之一。“
Universities all over the world are seeing fewer students enrolling for geomatics programmes. It seems China is an exception to the rule. Why do you think that geomatics attracts so many young people here?
首先，中国在过去的30年里一直迅速发展。土地管理人员需要支持工业化及其后果。中国努力建设新的高速公路和高速列车。地理信息在全国各地的类似基础设施项目中起着重要作用。其次，由于中国拥有13亿公民，政府需要很多地理专业人才来支持土地利用和城市规划。整体需求非常高，年轻人知道。
Does Wuhan University also attract international students?
Yes – every year, for instance, we have an international group of around 10 students here on a scholarship from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria. And we are training students from other parts of the world such as Korea, Mongolia and many African countries. All in all, there are always around 20 foreign students in the geomatics department. In the future we want to set up an International School of Geoinformation with foreign professors teaching here as well, to attract even more students from abroad.
