Study on construction and management of innovational GIS laboratory

Abstract

GIS is a technological and comprehensive interdisciplinary. With vigorous development of education on GIS specialty in China, construction of innovational GIS laboratory has become necessary road when multiattribute GIS people with special skills are trained for market demand. This paper take Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications for a case study, surrounding a objective of talent training of our school and GIS specialty feature, putting forward a way of construction thinking with taking "four platforms" as main body of innovational GIS laboratory , and expatiating on its contents, and including objective and principle of construction, and professional laboratory construction, teaching team construction, innovation platform construction and laboratory management construction. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.