In a recent study published in the Big Earth Data on Jan.3, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) harnessed satellite altimetry to monitor water level changes in 988 lakes, each exceeding 10 square kilometers, across China. The research, spanning from 2002 to 2023, utilized data from ICESat/-2, Cryosat-2, Jason-1/2/3, and Sentinel-3A/3B altimeters, employing techniques such as waveform retracking, lake level extraction, time series construction, multi-altimeter data fusion, and outlier removal.

The inaugural dataset of light pollution data for the Iberian Peninsula was released on December 13, 2023, by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) in partnership with the Complutense University of Madrid. The event marked a milestone that made it possible of utilizing data from the Sustainable Development Science Satellite 1 (SDGSAT-1).

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Earth Observation and Geoinformation，researchers from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals employed remote sensing technology to investigate the unprecedented surge in heat wave events across the globe in 2018.

In a recent study published in Remote Sensing on December 13, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences（CAS）have employed a Desertification Difference Index (DDI) model to better understand and combat global grassland desertification. The research, centered in Xilingol, northern China’s Inner Mongolia，focused on extracting desertification information using albedo-EVI, revealing insights into the spatial and temporal dynamics of desertified grasslands (DGLs).

Satellite Navigation, an English-language journal hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database. This inclusion covers all articles published since the journal's inception in 2020.

A collaborative effort involving China’s procuratorate agencies tasked with environmental litigations at national, municipal, and district levels, in conjunction with the Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation and Detection Technology at the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), witnessed the application of electromagnetic technology in the investigation of an environmental public interest litigation case, marking the pioneering use of its kind in the country.