How exactly can space information technologies be applied to the research, monitoring and protection of cultural and natural heritage? Wang Xinyuan, deputy director of the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the auspices of UNESCO, answered this question in an online lecture where he shared projects and discoveries last month.

At the end of May，an eight-member working group from the Microwave Microsystem Department of the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) conducted an agricultural application flight test in Yushu, Jilin Province, using the S-band subsystem.

Recently, Prof. LI Zhengqiang and his team from the State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) have proposed a new aerosol retrieval algorithm for better FMA retrieval, called Spectral Neutrality of Surface Polarized Reflectance, or SNOSPR for short. The research paper was published in Remote Sensing of Environment, a top academic journal in the remote sensing field.

The Spaceborne Microwave Remote Sensing System Department from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) has made some progress on using SAR remote sensing technology for pre-disaster deformation monitoring. A research paper titled "Improved Offset Tracking for Pre-disaster Deformation Monitoring of the 2018 Jinsha River Landslide (Tibet, China)", has been published in Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE, IF=8.791), one of the top SCI academic journals in the remote sensing field.

The Calibration Field Network Project of National Civil Space Infrastructure “13th Five-Year Plan” Land Observation Satellite - SAR Calibration System passed the design requirement analysis on a review meeting held in Beijing on May 28, 2020. The project is undertaken by the National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology.

The Planetary Remote Sensing team of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science performs scientific studies on topographic evolution analysis and surface mineral retrieval using images and spectral data acquired by the Yutu-2 rover. A series of recent research results are briefly summarized below.