• Joint Experiments Conducted to Facilitate Black Soil Protection
    Joint Experiments Conducted to Facilitate Black Soil Protection

    Large comprehensive experiments that integrate satellite, airplane, and ground-based observations was conducted at the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China from May to October to boost the black soil protection and use, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

    November 13, 2022
  • Study Sheds Light on Rebirth Code of Lop Nur
    Study Sheds Light on Rebirth Code of Lop Nur

    On November 3, 2022, Scientific Reports published a research paper entitled "Active water management brings reliability restore to degraded lakes in dry regions: a case study of Lop Nur, China", which introduced the scientific discovery of rebirth code for Lop Nur. The research was conducted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in partnership with several domestic research institutes.

    November 10, 2022
  • Ground Survey Datasets Released to Validate Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data
    Ground Survey Datasets Released to Validate Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data

    Recently, the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the second batch of ground survey datasets through its Common Application support Platform for Land Observation Satellite (CAPLOS), which can be downloaded for free by the users who registered on the website: http://caplos.aircas.ac.cn

    November 03, 2022
  • AIR Lofts Heavy Payload Balloon into Near-space Height
    AIR Lofts Heavy Payload Balloon into Near-space Height

    A high-altitude scientific balloon containing 1.2-ton payloads was lifted into the sky and reached an altitude of 30km in a demonstration test that helped validate the payload capacity of a near-space platform.

    October 26, 2022
  • Chinese Satellite In-flight Calibration Research Approved by World Meteorological Organization
    Chinese Satellite In-flight Calibration Research Approved by World Meteorological Organization

    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported in its GSICS Quarterly Newsletter (Volume 16, No. 2, 2022) the research of the in-flight radiometric calibration of Chinese wide field of view (FOV) Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC) on-board GF5 and GF5-02 series satellites based on Rayleigh scattering method, which was carried out by a research team led by Prof. LI Zhengqiang from the National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

    October 12, 2022
  • Rising Daily Surface Temperature of 160 Lakes over Tibetan Plateau during 40 Years
    Rising Daily Surface Temperature of 160 Lakes over Tibetan Plateau during 40 Years

    The annual surface temperature of 160 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau has increased significantly in the period 1978-2017, according to a study on large-scale dynamic monitoring and simulation of lake water temperature which is conducted by a research team from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), along with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

    September 30, 2022