Survey center's major achievements

1. The Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping used remote sensing in its work, which was awarded the second prize in the National Award for Progress in Science and Technology in 1998. It also set up a complete research system in fields including Antarctic geodynamics, Antarctic gravity fields, ice and snow environmental change in Antarctica and sea level changes in the Antarctic Ocean.

2. The center applied 3S advanced technology - remote sensing, a geographical information system and a global positioning system - in its environmental research and studies of crust movement in the polar regions. Using the technology, the center was able to map some places where it's difficult to establish control points on the ground, such as the Antarctic inland ice sheet. The research won the first prize in the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2004.

3. The center set up four GPS monitoring stations at the South Pole and North Pole and established an information-based surveying and mapping system, making it possible to obtain and transmit data reliably. The center drew more than 40 maps of poles in different dimensions. These achievements won the first prize in the Award for Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress in 2010.