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Remote Sensing Facilitates Snow and Ice Occurrents Management of China
Several cold waves swept across most parts of China since November 2021, causing record-hit snowfall and plummeting temperature. A research team led by Dr. QIU Yubao from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the National Disaster Reduction Center of China, provided remote sensing service on snow and ice as an emergency management approach for the occurrences of snow in northern China, as well as the snow and freezing rain in southern China from November 2021 to the end of February 2022.
Mar 16, 2022
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CAS Scientists Contribute to Beijing’s Blue Skies for 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Beijing, as the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has seen continuous blue skies greeting Olympic athletes last and this month.
Mar 11, 2022
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Global Forest Canopy Covers may be Underestimated, Study Finds
A research team led by the scientists from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences has found, in their study to estimate the forest canopy covers in northeastern China, the underestimation of about 20% of forest canopy covers may exist in three well-known global maps.
Mar 04, 2022
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China Receives Data from Newly Launched LT-1A Satellite
On February 9, the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station successfully received the first data transmitted from the newly launched land observation satellite LT-1A, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Feb 18, 2022
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China GEO Supports Tonga Volcano Eruption and Tsunami Disaster Response
Responding to requests from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the South Pacific Commission (SPC) and the New Zealand Disaster Risk Agency, China GEO Secretariat activated its Disaster Data Response (CDDR) Mechanism to provide high-resolution satellite imagery in support of disaster response.
Jan 21, 2022
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