On March 21, 2019, the Centre organized a technical visit to Institute of Remote Sensing & Digital Earth (RADI), CAS. Participants from 2018 MASTA & DOCSTA Program enjoyed this technical visit, and wrote about this meaningful and interesting visit.
“At the beginning, Mr. Ma Haojie (Student of Prof. Yalan, RADI, CAS) welcomed the students and briefly explained about the work carried by the institute and how different Chinese Remote Sensing satellites imagery is received at 5 Satellite Ground Stations (SGS) across the country.
After the introduction, we were taken to State Key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science. In this laboratory, various concepts of Remote Sensing e.g. Surface Energy Balance were studied.
Final visit was proceeded to Remote Sensing Science Corridor (Museum). In the corridor, number of scientific equipment was showcased. Nearly all equipment was used in old days. Air and ground field work was performed using these instruments. Few of notable instruments, High Altitude Digital Camera, Transparent Project, Geological Hardware, Manual Stereoscope, Computing Server, were described by the presenter.
Visit was concluded with a group photo of students with IRSDE representatives. This brief visit to nearby facility was found interesting to students.”
——HASAN ALI, 2018 MASTA participant
“RADI was formed in 2012, the year marked the 50th birthday of remote sensing, 30-year progress of Earth observations and the 15th anniversary of Digital Earth. The largest research institute in the field, RADI was established consolidating two CAS institutes: the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA) and the Center for Earth Observations and Digital Earth (CEODE).
The primary purpose of this center is to foster research in the young generation to study the science of environment observations and remote sensing through utilizing satellite imagery. RADI consists of nine laboratories at national level, two great national earth observation centers utilizing space data accumulated through satellites. It also houses four esteemed international S&T centers which are supported by UNESCO and ICSU.
On reception, the visitors were shown satellite images of Beijing recorded on April 2018 proving their database prowess that old data is available to carry-on research and environment radiation modeling on them.
The visitors were then briefed about State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science. The role of this laboratory is to study the global change in the environment. Through the studies of hydro-logical studies of the atmosphere, a simulation center has been built which monitors the radiations from the earth surface and the energy balance phenomena.
Later, the students were taken to a museum where various equipment of the past such as GER MARK V spectrum-scanner, a high altitude digital camera, a projector and other obsolete equipment’s were placed. All these items have been used in the past for the purpose of atmosphere study and remote sensing.”
—— Muhammad Shan-e-Hassan, 2018 MASTA participant
