An online seminar, organized by the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO (hereafter called HIST), was held in Beijing on March 16 to explore how to use cutting-edge technologies to promote sustainable development of UNESCO-designated sites. The event was held both online and offline, attracting more than 240,000 online attendees.

AOGEO (Asia-Oceania GEO) TG7 Environmental Monitoring and Protection Online Workshop was held in Beijing on February 24, 2021. The event was hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).

A cooperative research on high-precision navigation and positioning technology for urban intelligent transportation was jointly carried out by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) of Thailand, with the support of CAS International Partnership Program.

A special HiMAC2020 online forum was held on 21 December 2020 to review the cryosphere scientific collaboration in snow, ice modeling and observations between China and Finland, which was attended by 76 scientists from both countries.

Cooperation on the Analysis of Carbon Satellites Data (CASA)? an international scientific program has started its second phase, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), as well as the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) and Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI).

The World Data System (WDS) Scientific Committee recently chose Dr. ZHANG Lianchong from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) as a nominee of the 2020 WDS Data Stewardship Award.