Abstract: The rapid development of artificial intelligence is bound to promote the transformation of higher education in surveying and mapping.Teaching methods and means will be thoroughly changed and the content and extension of teaching content of surveying and mapping higher education will greatly enriched with the development of technologies,such as navigation and positioning,image measurement,big data and cloud services.In this paper,we think deeply about the teaching relationship,teaching model,the quality of teachers and other basic issues about surveying and mapping.Firstly,we expound the basic understanding about the transformation of teaching relationship and put forward the "Center of Gravity Balance" teacher-student relationship in the intelligent age.Secondly,three aspects of the innovation of surveying and mapping teaching mode are analyzed,including individualized classroom teaching,virtual reality teaching and full time and space intelligent teaching mode.Finally,the paper discussed the requirements of intelligent education on surveying and mapping request to teachers from three aspects:the role of educators,teacher differentiation and countermeasures.In general,artificial intelligence will change the view of time and space,the relationship between students and teachers,the teaching mode of traditional education,and brought new opportunities and challenges to surveying and mapping higher education at the same time.

Key words: artificial intelligence, higher education in surveying and mapping, teaching mode, teaching relationship