The school was founded in 1956 as the
Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping. In 1958, the State Surveying and Mapping Bureau of China took charge of the college. In 1985, it was renamed as Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping. In 1993, the department of
Geodesy and
Engineering Survey was merged into the university and renamed it as School of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering of the university. In February 2000, the
Ministry of Education of took charge of the university and merged it into
Wuhan University as its School of Geodesy and Geomatics. == Image gallery ==