The 22nd Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province on August 14, 2020 with the theme "Innovation-driven reform and opening-up: Technology Fuels Cooperation and Development." Prof. GUO Huadong, Chief Scientist of the Big Earth Data Science Engineering Program (CASEarth) and a member of United Nations 10-Member Group to support Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was invited to make a keynote speech at this high-level event, elaborating the role of Big Earth Data for sustainable development within China and beyond.

A remote sensing assessment report released by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) shows that Jiuzhaigou in southwest China's Sichuan Province is recovering from an earthquake on August 8, 2017.

A research team led by Prof. LI Zhengqiang from the National Engineering Laboratory of Remote Sensing Satellite Application under the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in pinpointing the characteristics of the atmospheric mixing layer height (MLH) over Beijing by laser radar (lidar). The paper titled "Determination and climatology of diurnal cycle of atmospheric mixing layer height over Beijing 2013-2018: Lidar measurements and implication for air pollution” was published online on July 27 in the journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A dedicated website containing data on summer flood disasters in China has been launched, the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

AIR has recently launched a NSFC funded research program on realizing SAR three-dimensional (3D) imaging from microwave vision, a new method that integrates microwave scattering mechanism and image visual semantics to realize 3D reconstruction, meanwhile reduces the number of observations required for 3D imaging.

A research team from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (CAS) has made a precise lunar crater map within the planned landing area of CE-5, as well as a surface age analysis of the craters. The research was published on the Earth and Planetary Science Letters titled “a catalogue of impact craters larger than 200 m and surface age analysis in the Chang'e-5 landing area”.