Institutions
Major institutions include:
- National Geographic Information System (国家基础地理信息中心)
- National Fundamental Geographic Information System
- National Geomatics Center of China
- State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping
- Institute of Soil Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- The Data Sharing Network of Earth System Science
- SuperMap is a stand alone GIS program and data provider. They have several large contracts with the Chinese government and are one of the few sources for 1:500 scale map data which they offer for a limited number of cities.
- MapWorld provides 1:10,000 and 1:25,000 scale data on a range of topics from administrative boundaries to facilities management. They provide datum and projection information and prepare data in either ESRI or MapInfo formats.
- Beijing Creation Science & Technology Development specializes in personalized data sets at any scale. They also prepare and process satellite images.
- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS)
- Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Science
- China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences
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