Yang Kai
Professor, State Bureau of
Surveying and Mapping,
China
Yang
Kai graduated from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping
(WTUSM), China in 1965. After graduating, he was engaged in teaching
and research in his mother university until 1986 for a total of
21 years, first as an assistant, later as a lecturer and finally
as a professor and the dean of the Department of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing of WTUSM.
Yang Kai was appointed chief engineer of the State Bureau of Surveying
and Mapping (SBSM) in 1986 and then served as deputy director general
of the Bureau from 1988 to 2002. As the representative of the SBSM,
Yang Kai was vice chairman of the National Geo-Spatial Information
Coordination Committee (NGSICC) of China from 1999 to 2002.
Presently, Yang Kai works as president of the Permanent Committee
on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP) and as president
of the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
(CSGPC).
Yang
Kai graduated from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping
(WTUSM), China in 1965. After graduating, he was engaged in teaching
and research in his mother university until 1986 for a total of
21 years, first as an assistant, later as a lecturer and finally
as a professor and the dean of the Department of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing of WTUSM.