Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica (AGCS) is the most authoritative periodical and the main documents in China Surveying and Mapping circles. In the 57 years, it has been extensively approved by colleagues of surveying and mapping circles. AGCS is the main documents of state level periodical for international academic exchange and reflects the most high development level of China surveying and mapping science and technology.
AGCS started its publication in 1957. It is the one of 77 periodicals, established by the societies of natural science at that time. It has won the title of excellent periodical of Chinese Society of Science and Technology (CSST). It has been chosen as one of the hundred excellent academic periodicals in China and as an item of excellent scientific and Technical Periodicals Project of CSST. AGCS has got aid financially many times from CSST for excellent academic periodicals in high science and technology. AGCS has its paper ,be chosen by CSST into the state excellent scientific and technical papers in every year.
The sponsor of AGCS is the Chinese Society for Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, and it is edited and published by Surveying and Mapping Press. AGCS is an EI core periodical and it is also one of the Chinese outstanding academic journals with international influence.It has been chosen as one of the hundred excellent academic periodicals in China and as an item of excellent scientific and Technical Periodicals Project of CSST. AGCS is selected by many databases at home and abroad. AGCS is the main documents of state level periodical for international academic exchange and reflects the most high development level of China surveying and mapping science and technology. AGCS publishes both Chinese and English articles, which covers the field on geodesy, engineering surveying, remote sensing, aerophotogrammetry, cartography, GIS, mine survey, ocean surveying, cardastral surveying, map printing , surveying instruments, information transmission and geomatics-related branches of learning.
Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica is an open access journal, which is adopted by the Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ) and the China Open Access Journals(COAJ). All its journal articles are published in accordance with the Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license.
Main titles: academic articles, letters, Ph.D. dissertation abstracts, academic activity information and etc.
Target readers: scientific researchers in institutions related with surveying and mapping at home and abroad, teachers and students in colleges, scientific and technical workers in the related disciplines.