From July 23 to August 4, the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) led a joint experiment in northwest of China to valid the domestic satellite data, specifically its application in the field of agriculture and desert ecology.

Responding to requests from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), ChinaGEO Secretariat activated its Disaster Data Response (CDDR) Mechanism to provide high-resolution satellite imagery in support of disaster response.

According to a recent report on Journal Citation from the Clarivate Analytics, the 2020 Impact Factor of Microsystems & Nanoengineering (English) has reached a new high, 7.127, with a 5-year Impact Factor of 6.955. The new impact factor ranks No. 4 in JCR INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION subject and maintains Q1 area.

The project "global remote sensing calibration benchmark network" supported by the CAS International Partnership Program has been completed after five-year research efforts.

There had been at least three mare flooding events occurred inside the Von Karman crater during the Imbrian period, according to a research paper titled "Mare basalt flooding events surrounding Chang'e-4 landing site as revealed by Zhinyu crater ejecta", authored by Dr. GOU Sheng et al. and recently published in Icarus. The research is conducted by the planetary mapping and remote sensing team led by Prof. DI Kaichang from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

The Big Earth Data journal, or BEDJ has been accepted for indexing in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), meaning that all articles published in the journal will be fully indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, can be discovered more easily, and that article citations can be tracked on the Web of Science platform.