Henan Provincial Laboratory for Natural Disaster Remote Sensing Monitoring was founded in 1998, formerly known as GIS and remote sensing experiment teaching center. Nanyang Normal University built the remote sensing mapping, geographic information system with an investment of more than 800,000 RMB. In 2005, in order to meet the needs of GIS specialty, the university built the surveying and mapping engineering laboratory with an investment of more than 600, 000 RMB. In 2007, in order to promote teaching and high-level scientific research, the university invested more than one million RMB to establish the remote sensing application and disaster research laboratory and purchased the satellite ground receiving station. In December 2009, the lab was examined by the experts sent by the Technology Bureau of Nanyang and approved as Nanyang Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Disaster Reduction. Then it became the provincial key laboratory cultivation base of the Education Department of Henan Province and was renamed as Henan Provincial Key Laboratory for Natural Disaster Remote Sensing Monitoring in 2012.

The lab has sixteen members, 87.5% of whom are masters, 34.5% professors or associate professors, and 87.5% under forty five. In the past five years, the members have published over one hundred articles with over ten in core journals or indexes, more than ten textbooks, and undertaken two national projects, over ten ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and over ten social serving projects.