BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese scientist has used satellite remote-sensing technology to pinpoint the source of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo River, and measured its length at 5,260 kilometers, longer than previous estimates.

plateau railway construction project, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) said on Tuesday.

Scientists have determined that about 63 percent of existing soil moisture observation stations globally accurately reflect soil moisture conditions at the satellite pixel scale, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have unveiled a novel application of the Earth science satellite SDGSAT-1 for observing offshore oil and gas platforms. The study, led by researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was recently published in the International Journal of Digital Earth.

BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have conducted a glacier inventory survey in northwest China, using their independently developed airborne ice radar technology, the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced.

The satellite data receiving station network, composed of these five stations, boasts 38 large-diameter data receiving antennas and over 10 high-speed optical fiber data transmission links, leading the world in scale and technical specifications, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.