European Union and China Have Signed a Research Deal on Remote Sensing
European Union and China have signed a new collaborative research arrangement in the area of remote sensing.
The deal, which emerged during the Europe-China summit, involves Europe’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Remote Sensing (CAS-RADI), agreed to contribute to address global challenges, such as sustainable development, climate action and disaster risk reduction using remote sensing technology.
The relations between the JRC and CAS-RADI build upon more than a decade of successful co-operation. Tangible outcomes of this co-operation include: the development of a shared vision of Digital Earth for the next decade and disaster impact methodologies in the area of disaster management.
Under new agreement, collaboration will be reinforced and extended to promising areas, such as: air quality, human settlement detection and characterisation, land and soil mapping, land cover mapping, digital earth sciences and agricultural monitoring.
Collaborative activities under the new arrangement will include: exchange of scientific and technological information, joint training programmes, participation in the implementation of on-going programmes, projects and related activities of mutual interest to the parties.
As China is a key priority country for the JRC, active and wide-ranging scientific co-operations have been established with government bodies and universities through bilateral agreements as well as in a multilateral context. For more information, please check out the JRC leaflet on the collaboration with China.
Source: JRC, EU