A senior space engineer explains how remote sensing satellites are used in landscape and resource mapping, desertification control, and disaster relief, among other fields | China Xinhua Sci-Tech

What is remote sensing? In a video from IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society technologists explain how satellites are able to track changes around the globe using a network of sensors. Learn more about IEEE GRSS and their ongoing initiatives here: https://www.grss-ieee.org/ | IEEE

China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday. #Satellite | China Xinhua Sci-Tech

China on Saturday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket to place a remote sensing satellite group in space. The satellites, the fourth batch of the Yaogan-35 family, were launched at 1:37 a.m. from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan and entered the preset orbit. They will be used to conduct science experiments, land resource surveys and yield estimation of agricultural products as well as disaster prevention and reduction. #rocket #satellite | CGTN China24

China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday to place a group of three remote sensing satellites in space. https://www.cctvplus.com/news/20230831/8340405.shtml#!language=1 | CCTV