A National Key R & D Program featuring "Science and Technology in Support of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics” was kicked off in Beijing on January 7, 2020. The program, which is undertaken by a research team led by Prof. SHAO Yun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), aims to assess the environmental conditions of the training venues, in particular the impact of winds on the performances of athletes, and therefore assist to build an on-site support system.

A joint inter-project meeting on the Arctic Shipping and its assessment was attended by nearly 20 backbone scientists from two national key R&D projects to report, exchange and discuss their researches and progresses about this topic in the year of 2019.

A global sea state dataset based on the ENVISAT/ASAR wave mode data has been recently released by the scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The dataset derived from decadal spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is the first of this kind that describes global sea state in terms of ocean wave integral parameters of significant wave height and mean wave period.

A review meeting on the construction of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) was held in Chengdu on December 24, 2019. The engineering team from the R&D Center for Aerostat System (hereafter called the “Center”) under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) in charge of the engineering and construction of LHAASO project won the Excellent Team Award of 2019.

A study on the "Pin-Like Optical Beams to Penetrate Turbulence" published by the scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was on the list of “30 exciting peer-reviewed optics researches” that had emerged around the world in 2019, according to a news on the annual highlights special issue recently released by the Optical Society of America (OSA), which has been highlighting a list of top 30 exciting optical research of the year on its annual special issue since 1990.

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- China has achieved a 30-meter-resolution Global Forest Cover Map (GFCM) of 2018 for forest management, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.