Ten frontier scientific challenges expected to shape future research and technological development in remote sensing were unveiled on Aug. 28 at the opening ceremony of the Second National Conference on Remote Sensing Geography in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, causing widespread damage across 32 cities. According to figures released by local authorities on Aug. 15, the death toll had risen to 294, with 3,935 people injured.

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Sichuan University of Science and Engineering; and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported the study in the Journal of Remote Sensing​ on April 29, 2026. The article presents a new satellite-based method for retrieving global, direct, and diffuse solar radiation from FY-4A. The work targets a key operational problem: how to deliver accurate sunlight estimates at high spatiotemporal resolution without relying heavily on dense ground observations or auxiliary atmospheric datasets.