The college has 3 departments (Department of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Department of Navigation Engineering, and Department of Geophysics) and 5 research institutes (Institute of Surveying Engineering, Institute of Space Information Engineering, Institute of Aerospace Surveying and Mapping, and Institute of Earth Science). Institute of Physical Geodesy, Institute of Spatial Positioning and Navigation), 3 ministerial key laboratories (Key Laboratory of Geospatial Environment and Geodesy of the Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Geophysical Geodesy of the National Bureau of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Precision Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Surveying of the National Bureau of Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information), Global Satellite Navigation Service System (IGS) Continuous Operation Tracking Station, Wuhan University Ocean Research Institute, Wuhan University Disaster Monitoring and Prevention Research Center and other teaching and research institutions. In recent years, the college has undertaken more than 1,000 science and technology projects such as the National 973 Plan, 863 Plan, Science and Technology Support Plan, National Natural Science Foundation, and Key Engineering Projects, and has won more than 10 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and more than 100 provincial and ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards. item.
For more than half a century, thanks to the hard work and hard work of the older generation of surveying and mapping experts and scholars such as Xia Jianbai, Chen Yongling, and Ye Xuean, as well as the care of leaders at all levels and the strong support of industry units , established a national surveying and mapping higher education and scientific research base with the subject of surveying and mapping as the core, and has trained more than 20,000 senior surveying and mapping talents for my country's surveying and mapping teaching, scientific research and production industries.
In the new century and new stage, the college focuses on the basic theories of surveying and mapping and new thinking on surveying and mapping, satellite gravity field detection and its applications, the unification of modern space-time datums and global vertical datums, navigation and location services, engineering surveying and engineering safety. Monitoring, earth structure and geodynamics, space debris detection and early warning, networked remote sensing earth observation and remote sensing dynamic monitoring, ocean mapping and ocean dynamic environment, mobile measurement and intelligent measurement robots, spatiotemporal geographical information engineering and smart cities, underground space The main research fields such as information engineering are the key directions of discipline development, and a large number of surveying and mapping technology and teaching achievements with international advanced level or domestic leading level have been achieved, which have contributed to the development of my country’s surveying and mapping education and surveying and mapping technology, and to our country’s socialist modernization construction. It has made important contributions and has developed into the world's largest comprehensive surveying and mapping institute.
Adhering to the spirit of the college's motto of "dedication, community, truth-seeking, and innovation", the college is striving forward towards the goal of "high quality, internationalization, and innovation"!