A National Key R&D Project "Key Technologies for Field Archeology from Space and Fieldwork" was launched in Beijing on January 31, 2021.

The Report on Earth Observation Data Resources of China (2019) jointly made by the National Earth Observation Data Center (NODA) and the ChinaGEOSS DSNet, is officially released on January 21, 2021.

The project “Cross-calibration between high-resolution optical satellites and the benchmark satellite based on RadCalNet” was granted by the fifth phase of the Dragon Programmme (or Dragon 5) which was jointly launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) together with the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC) under China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

A three-member team from the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Remote Sensing Information Technology under AIR, including Tengger, ZHOU Zeng-Guang and CHENG Sai carried out flight tests over Changdu region, Tibet of China from October 23 to November 2 to test a system titled "miniaturized high steady state UAV active imaging system for ground disaster monitoring".

The near space aerostat experimental station，a national science and education infrastructure has started construction in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on November 14 to promote the development of the near space aerostat technology of China, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have released an updated global land cover dataset for 2020 with a resolution of 30 meters, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).