A study of 1,029 cities worldwide found that overlooking these differences in social vulnerability underestimates inequality in urban heat risk. The study was conducted by a team led by Prof. MENG Qingyan from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), together with collaborators. It was published in Communications Earth & Environment.

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) have used satellite images taken across the growing season to map shrub cover in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Tracking seasonal differences in growth helped them distinguish shrub patches from dense grass, which can look similar in a single image.

Artificial intelligence is becoming an important tool in infectious disease research, but research attention does not always match the needs of the regions hardest hit. A study by researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), in collaboration with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has found a persistent mismatch between the geographic distribution of the research attention and the burden of infectious diseases. Published in npj Digital Medicine​, the study traces how the field has evolved over three decades.