UK and Chinese geospatial experts launch new joint centre

PA 395/11 After several months of preparation, a new Sino-UK Geospatial Engineering Centre has been launched formally in Beijing. It will be run jointly by NASG, China's National Administration for Survey, Mapping and Geoinformation — through its academic arm the Chinese Academy of Survey and Mapping (CASM) — and The University of Nottingham. The Centre will develop geospatial information research to solve key scientific issues for both countries. Its main site is at the China Surveying and Mapping Innovation Base in Beijing. A UK presence is being prepared at the Nottingham Geospatial Building in the UK. This new joint venture will promote innovation and technology transfer, leadership training, and staff and student exchange. It will explore funding opportunities and new project work, integrating resources to support long-term collaboration; and it will act as a world-leading incubation centre to realise beneficial combinations of research and development, production and commercialisation.