Recently, the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the second batch of ground survey datasets through its Common Application support Platform for Land Observation Satellite (CAPLOS), which can be downloaded for free by the users who registered on the website: http://caplos.aircas.ac.cn

A high-altitude scientific balloon containing 1.2-ton payloads was lifted into the sky and reached an altitude of 30km in a demonstration test that helped validate the payload capacity of a near-space platform.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported in its GSICS Quarterly Newsletter (Volume 16, No. 2, 2022) the research of the in-flight radiometric calibration of Chinese wide field of view (FOV) Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC) on-board GF5 and GF5-02 series satellites based on Rayleigh scattering method, which was carried out by a research team led by Prof. LI Zhengqiang from the National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

The annual surface temperature of 160 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau has increased significantly in the period 1978-2017, according to a study on large-scale dynamic monitoring and simulation of lake water temperature which is conducted by a research team from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), along with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

In a small county-level city called Genhe in the far northeast of Inner Mongolia, August saw frequently MA 60 remote sensing aircraft setting off and landing. The aircraft is part of Chinese Aeronautic Remote Sensing System (CARSS), a large research infrastructure housed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).