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A group of researchers led by China’s Nanjing University has created a global-scale inventory map to determine the spatio-temporal distribution of floating photovoltaics. “Existing statistical reports on water-surface photovoltaics (WSPV) only provide aggregated summary statistics but lack spatiotemporal information, which hinders the environmental assessment and policy management,” the research’s lead author, Shanchuan Guo, told pv ...

Harxon has launched its new survey GNSS antenna, HX-CSX600A, and helix antenna, HX-CUX615A, designed for high-accuracy positioning applications across the geospatial industry. These two antennas are set to debut at INTERGEO 2023. HX-CSX600A boasts a pre-filtered Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) offering exceptional out-of-band rejection, ensuring strong anti-interference performance even in challenging environments. It is designed ...

Vegetation is a crucial part of terrestrial ecosystems and an important indicator of climate change. A team of Chinese researchers has reported that the structural complexity of vegetation may influence satellites’ remote sensing monitoring. Vegetation indices (VIs), derived from satellite data, are widely used for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems and tracking plant properties, vegetation changes, and ...

China has added to its growing network of classified Yaogan series satellites with a pair of Long March rocket launches. A Long March 4C lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 2:14 p.m. EDT on Sept. 7 (1814 GMT, or 02:14 a.m. Beijing time on Sept. 7). Aboard was Yaogan ...

The International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) has released the world’s first atlas of urban nighttime light remote-sensing data, providing support for the research on urban sustainable development. The atlas contains 10-meter resolution nighttime light data on 147 cities in 105 countries around the world. The data was captured by ...

The AlphaUni 20 (AU20) Lidar system represents a new era in cost-effective, multi-platform mobile mapping solutions, according to CHC Navigation (CHCNav), a global leader in precision mapping, positioning and navigation technologies. Harnessing the power of six years of innovation and product development fuelled by CHCNAV’s Lidar technology, the AU20 is aimed at redefining mobile mapping ...

Settlements with more green spaces have a lower rate of bipolar disorder, a Taiwanese research team found. The researchers of the study shared the results yesterday at a press conference held by the Science Media Center Taiwan. The research team, using satellite remote sensing, machine learning and data analysis, found a significant negative association between ...

China has launched the world’s first synthetic aperture radar satellite in high-altitude orbit, according to the China National Space Administration. Dedicated to natural disaster prevention and mitigation, the remote sensing satellite, Land Surveyor 4A, was carried into orbit on a Long March 3B rocket that blasted off at 1:26 am on Sunday from the Xichang ...

The U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission issued a solicitation for an unclassified report on China’s remote sensing technologies and applications. The commission, established in 2000, is an independent agency of the U.S. government that directly reports to Congress and the president. The request for proposals, issued Aug. 8, seeks a report that assesses China’s ...

China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has newly launched the city’s first and one of the world’s largest satellite manufacturing facilities, known as AMC. The facility revealed to the Global Times in an exclusive interview that their first made-in-Hong Kong, high-quality satellite would hopefully be delivered by the beginning of 2024. Referred also as ...

Telhados verdes têm sido apontados como uma das possíveis soluções para o combate às mudanças climáticas nas cidades. Isso porque, além de permitirem a captação de água da chuva e a produção de hortaliças no alto dos edifícios, eles também são capazes de gerar microclima, reduzindo a temperatura local e o gasto energético com refrigeração, ...

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality (“AR”) Technology provider, today announced that a big data analytical engine system based on GIS location was developed to improve the efficiency of data utilization. WiMi’s big data analytical engine system not only integrates and analyzes spatial data using GIS technology, but also processes, mines, ...

Over the years there have been many headlines regarding teens having been killed, maimed or severely injured due to wearing earbuds and not paying attention to their surroundings, especially near crosswalks. One report pointed to the Toronto Police mentioning Apple’s AirPods as a problem, though it’s more of generic earphones issue in general. The issue ...

China Unveiled Plans To Build A New Satellite Constellation At The Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) That Would Comprise 300 Satellites Orbiting The Globe By 2030 And Provide Ultra-fast Remote Sensing And Communication Services, With The First Satellite To Be Launched December This Year , The Global Times Learned From Developers On Wednesday. The Second ...

Today, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of the People’s Republic of China welcomed African delegates to inaugurate the China-Africa Cooperation Centre on Satellite Remote Sensing Application. This momentous occasion marked a significant step forward in the collaboration between China and Africa in utilising remote sensing technologies for the sustainable development of natural resources. The ...

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has completed the assembly and testing of Egypt’s remote sensing satellite MisrSat 2, according to a statement by the Ministry of International Cooperation on Sunday. The satellite was built using a $92 million grant provided by China to fund two projects in Egypt that was signed in February ...

China launched a Long March-6 carrier rocket on Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province, sending a new experimental satellite into preset orbit. The satellite, known as Shiyan-25, will be mainly used to carry out experiments on new Earth observation technologies for areas including land resource surveys, urban planning and ...

China achieved a significant milestone on Thursday (June 15) launching the Long March 2D rocket with an impressive payload of 41 satellites. This accomplishment sets a new national record for China in terms of the number of satellites deployed in a single mission, reported Chinese news agency Xinhua. The 41 satellites launched in this mission ...

Since the signing of an agreement on Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation in August 2021, China has shared 400 scenes of satellite imagery data with BRICS countries, with the total volume amounting to 1.5 TB. Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration, made the remarks Friday in virtual format at the ...

China has delivered its first “floating oil factory” with land-sea integrated operation system, marking a new breakthrough in the country’s application of the digital twin technology. Haiyang Shiyou 123 (Offshore Oil 123) ship is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit that can process oil and gas on the sea, saving the process of ...

Resilience can be interpreted as the comprehensive ability of a system to prepare for, absorb, and recover from external or internal disturbances and shocks. In the context of human mobility, resilience therefore refers to the ability of people’s movements within and between cities to cope with and adapt to disruptive events, such as natural disasters. ...

Both the geometric and spectral information of the target are available with the hyperspectral light detection and ranging (LiDAR) in a single measurement. This advanced technique extends the scope of imaging spectroscopy to spectral three-dimensional (3D) sensing. However, two major geometric radiative effects exist in hyperspectral LiDAR, namely, the distance effect and incidence angle effect, ...

China on Wednesday sent a new BeiDou navigation satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite was launched at 10:49 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It will be connected to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) after it enters orbit and completes in-orbit ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University are conducting a sky-ground scientific experiment to test the condition of glaciers in the Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Northwest Qinghai province. The experiment has applied radars in three bands — P-band, L-band and Very High Frequency — and undertaken 11 flights, among which seven carried out ...

China launched an experiment satellite onboard the Tianzhou-6 cargo craft on Wednesday, according to the satellite’s developer Dalian University of Technology. The satellite is a high-resolution Earth remote sensing CubeSat that weighs 17 kg. It will serve to verify a series of innovative technologies such as high-resolution remote sensing imaging, a highly reliable domestic OpenHarmony ...

The General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information participated in the inaugural meeting of the international advisory committee of its UN counterpart between April 20 and 22 in Deqing, China. During the meeting, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia presented the experience of the GASGI in developing a national strategy in line with global standards prescribed ...

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have found that the proportion of sunlit background visible in remote sensing images controls the vertical distribution of stereoscopic point clouds. The higher the proportion of visible sunlit background, the stronger the ability to detect the understory terrain. The team ...

Large earthquakes generally produce ground deformation that can be measured by geodetic instruments. Geophysicists can use these measurements to invert the earthquake source parameters, that is, to recover the earthquake slip on the ruptured fault. However, the conventional inversion of geodetic data does not fully resolve the geometry of the broken fault at depth. Wei ...

Os governos do Brasil e a China assinaram nesta sexta-feira (14) 15 acordos de cooperação entre os quais o que vai possibilitar o desenvolvimento, fabricação, lançamento e operação de um satélite para aperfeiçoar o monitoramento da Amazônia. Trata-se do Satélite Sino Brasileiro de Recursos Terrestres – CBERS-6, que possui uma nova tecnologia: o Radar de ...

Chinese researchers say an artificial intelligence machine was given temporary full control of a satellite in near-Earth orbit, in a landmark experiment to test the technology’s behaviour in space. For 24 hours the Qimingxing 1, a small Earth observation satellite, was directed by a ground-based AI, without any human order, assignment or intervention, according to ...