A research team led by Prof. Meng Qingyan from the National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has published a paper on the Remote Sensing of Environment. The title of the paper is “Spatially variable model for extracting TIR anomalies before earthquakes: Application to Chinese Mainland”, and the first author is Dr. ZHANG Ying.

On September 23, 2021, the first science committee conference on Cooperation on Accessing and Application the Spaceborne Hyperspectral Data (CASH) was held in Zhuhai. The conference was hosted by the National Earth Observation Data Center (NODA), co-organized by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace Science and Technology Co., Ltd.

China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS) , a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed that it successfully received data from the newly-launched GF-5 (02) hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on September 11, 2021.

Big Earth Data has published a special issue on Big Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals to celebrate the launch of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS).

The second conference on remote sensing of vegetation pests and diseases was held online on August 28, 2021. The two-day event was attended by government officials, experts, scholars, and industry representatives, bringing more than 60,000 online visits.

An experiment was carried out in Zhoushan adjacent sea area of East China Sea on August 16-19 to test the "Smart Ocean" emergency communication network through a shipboard tethered balloon platform developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).