Dr. ZENG Hongwei, an AIR scientist from the CropWatch team went to Nairobi, Kenya from 28 to 29 June 2023 to help the country promote capability of agriculture monitoring by training the staff of its Ministry of Agriculture on the use of GVG for the crop classification.

Several years ago, using satellite technology, Chinese researchers, alongside scientists from Tunisia, Italy, and Pakistan, discovered 10 archaeological sites, including walls, military fortifications and agricultural irrigation systems from ancient Rome in Tunisia, at the western end of the ancient Silk Road.

The 11th Steering Committee Meeting of Space Climate Observatory (SCO)，organized by the Norwegian Space Agency, was held in Oslo, Norway on May 24, 2023.

The 4th Huangshan Dialogue on the preservation of UNESCO-listed heritage sites is underway in the city of Huangshan in central China's Anhui Province. The UN Satellite Center's director EINAR BJORGO sat down with CGTN during the event to discuss the role of satellites in the preservation of heritage sites.

The 6th AOGEO Workshop was held in Macau, China from May 29-31, 2023, hosted by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), China GEO Secretariat, National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC), and co-organized by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), the University of Macau (UM).

The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Program has stepped into the second phase which will last for 10 years, according to a cooperative agreement signed on May 11 in Paris.