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AIR Conducts Aerial Remote Sensing Experiment
The year 2020 is crucial for the project of Airborne Remote Sensing System, a national key S&T infrastructure underway. Two remote sensing aircraft equipped with dozens of advanced remote sensing equipment, and high-performance ground data processing systems, the system is expected to be China’s state-of-the-art aerial system once completed.
Mar 30, 2020
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CropWatch Bulletin Releases Crop Production Outlook under the Shadow of Locusts
The latest issue of CropWatch Bulletin, a quarterly report published by the CropWatch research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was released on February 29 to provide comprehensive description on world-wide crop conditions between October 2019 and January 2020, and insights on the crop production outlook for 2020.
Mar 05, 2020
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CAS Scientists Assess Risk of Desert Locust Invasion to China, Based on Remote Sensing Monitoring
A research team led by Prof. HUANG Wenjiang and Dr. DONG Yingying from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has tracked the migration path of the Desert Locust and make a detailed analysis on the possibility of the Desert Locust invasion of China. The research combines multi-source Earth Observation data (including GF series in China, MODIS and Landsat series in US, and Sentinel series in EU), meteorological data, field data, and self-developed models and algorithms for Desert Locust monitoring and forecasting based on the Digital Earth Science Platform developed by AIR.
Feb 25, 2020
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Progress in China-Mymmar Joint Remote Sensing Survey and Mapping of Bagan World Heritage Site
At the invitation of the Department of Archaeology and National Museum (Bagan Branch), the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, Myanmar, the DBAR-Heritage World Natural and Cultural Heritage Working Group(WG) carried out the UAV-based optical remote sensing survey in Bagan World Heritage Site from December 25, 2019 to January 6, 2020. During the period of field work, with the support of Myanmar, the Chinese scientific research team carried out 17 UAV flights which covered about 1000 kilometers of flight lines and 240 square kilometers of heritage area, and obtained approximately 266 GB of raw aerial remote sensing data with ground sample distance better than 10 cm.
Feb 19, 2020
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AIR Launches National Key R&D Program in Support of 2022 Winter Olympic Games
A National Key R & D Program featuring "Science and Technology in Support of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics” was kicked off in Beijing on January 7, 2020. The program, which is undertaken by a research team led by Prof. SHAO Yun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), aims to assess the environmental conditions of the training venues, in particular the impact of winds on the performances of athletes, and therefore assist to build an on-site support system.
Feb 18, 2020
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