• Study Provides New Benchmark for Surface Radiation Product over East-Pacific Region
    Study Provides New Benchmark for Surface Radiation Product over East-Pacific Region

    Prof. Husi Letu from the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,and his team on cloud remote sensing recently published a paper entitled "A new benchmark for surface radiation products over the East Asia-Pacific region retrieved from the Himawari-8" in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS),a flagship journal of the American Meteorological Society.

    December 29, 2021
  • China Unveils First Images Taken by Satellite SDGSAT-1
    China Unveils First Images Taken by Satellite SDGSAT-1

    A group of images taken by Chinese satellite SDGSAT-1 to help meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were unveiled in Beijing on Monday.

    December 20, 2021
  • Airborne Remote Sensing Experiment Completed on Home-grown MA60 Aircraft
    Airborne Remote Sensing Experiment Completed on Home-grown MA60 Aircraft

    With the landing of a MA60 aircraft, a comprehensive remote sensing experiment wrapped up in Rizhao, Shandong Province on November 30, 2021.

    December 10, 2021
  • GF-3 02 Satellite Launched to Boost Land-Sea Observations
    GF-3 02 Satellite Launched to Boost Land-Sea Observations

    GF-3 02 satellite is equipped with multi-polarized C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) which was developed by a research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

    November 25, 2021
  • In-orbit Test Conducted on Polarization Crossfire Sensor Suite onboard China's Hyperspectral Earth Observation Satellite
    In-orbit Test Conducted on Polarization Crossfire Sensor Suite onboard China's Hyperspectral Earth Observation Satellite

    An in-orbit test of the polarization crossfire (PCF) sensor suite onboard GaoFen-5 (02), a hyperspectral Earth Observation satellite launched on September 7, 2021, was carried out by a joint 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).

    November 15, 2021
  • New Evidence, Quantitative Methods, and Contributing Factors of Industrial Heat Island Effects
    New Evidence, Quantitative Methods, and Contributing Factors of Industrial Heat Island Effects

    A research team led by Prof. MENG Qingyan from the National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has published a paper on the Environmental Pollution on the urban intra-heat island effects. The paper tries to provide evidence, quantitative methods, and contributing factors from a spatiotemporal analysis of top steel plants in China? Prof. MENG Qingyan and doctoral candidate HU Die are the co-first authors.

    November 17, 2021