• International Event Held to Strengthen Wetland Conservation in Cold Regions during COP 14
    International Event Held to Strengthen Wetland Conservation in Cold Regions during COP 14

    The International Symposium on the Protection and Restoration of Wetland Ecosystem Functions in Cold Regions was held both online and offline on November 10, 2022,bringing some 200 participants from six international organizations and five countries such as USA, Russia, Britain and China.

    November 13, 2022
  • CBAS,UN-Habitat Sign Letter of Intent for Collaboration
    CBAS,UN-Habitat Sign Letter of Intent for Collaboration

    On November 1, the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), together with UN-Habitat and the Administrative Center for China抯 Agenda 21 (ACCA21), organized an online seminar with the theme 揑nternational Cooperation on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals? as a side event to the 2022 World Cities Day Global Observance and 2nd SDG Cities Global Conference. Prof. Guo Huadong, the Director General of CBAS, and Dr. Robert Ndugwa, the Chief of Data and Analytics Section at UN-Habitat, signed and exchanged Letter of Intent for collaboration under the CBAS Global SDG Partnership framework.

    November 03, 2022
  • HIST, ICCROM sign Agreement for Collaboration on Space Technologies for World Cultural Heritage Conservation
    HIST, ICCROM sign Agreement for Collaboration on Space Technologies for World Cultural Heritage Conservation

    On 24 October 2022, an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) under the auspices of UNESCO , and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (ICCROM) to advance collaboration on applying space technologies to monitor, conserve and protect World Cultural Heritage sites.

    October 26, 2022
  • China GEO Supports Thai Flood Disaster Response
    China GEO Supports Thai Flood Disaster Response

    Typhoon Noru landed in the northeast of Thailand on the afternoon of September 28, 2022, causing floods in 30 provinces, affecting more than 40,000 families, and causing agricultural losses of 3 billion baht (about 600 million yuan). Responding to requests from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on October 1, China GEO Secretariat activated its Disaster Data Response (CDDR) Mechanism to provide high-resolution satellite imagery in support of disaster response.

    October 11, 2022
  • 2022 International Training Workshop on Beidou Technologies and Applications Wraps up
    2022 International Training Workshop on Beidou Technologies and Applications Wraps up

    The 2022 International Training Workshop on Beidou Technologies and Applications in the Belt and Road Countries and Regions wrapped up in Beijing on September 30, 2022. The workshop was attended by 163 students from 34 Belt and Road countries and regions.

    October 11, 2022
  • Project on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Snow and Ice Physical Process Kicks off
    Project on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Snow and Ice Physical Process Kicks off

    On September 13, 2022, the kickoff meeting for the joint research project on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Snow and Ice Physical Process was held online. More than 10 scientists from International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS) and the Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI) join the meeting.

    September 30, 2022