State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science

In order to promote the resolution of frontier scientific problems in remote sensing quantification and strengthen the advantages of disciplines and departments, in 2003, the Open Research Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information Science (LARSIS) of the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the basic theory of remote sensing, Beijing Normal University The GIS Research Center jointly applied for the establishment of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science. In 2005, it was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and opened to the outside world. Through the joint construction of the State Key Laboratory, LARSIS has fully utilized the advantages of strong professionalism and complete experimental conditions, while maintaining the characteristics of Beijing Normal University ’s rich human resources, complete specialties and interdisciplinary characteristics. Young students can participate in research in advance to achieve The combination of universities and research institutes has greatly improved the research capabilities of the laboratory. The competent department of the laboratory is the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the supporting institutions are the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (formerly the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications) and the Beijing Normal University. The ratio of the fixed personnel in the two supporting institutions is 2: 1.

The laboratory is currently the only national key laboratory for basic research on remote sensing science in China, which has gathered a group of backbone forces in the remote sensing community in China and guided the continuous development of the field of remote sensing science in China. In 2012, in order to further strengthen the comprehensive advantages in the field of remote sensing and digital earth science and technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to jointly form the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth by the former Institute of Remote Sensing Applications and the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Science. The laboratory seized the opportunity of institutional reform, completed the physical operation system reform as the main research body of the new institute, and realized a relatively independent operation system of finance and personnel. Further condensed the laboratory's positioning and research direction, and made full use of the two major scientific devices to further improve the laboratory's scientific research capabilities. The current laboratory director is Shi Jiancheng, and the laboratory academic committee director is academician Guo Huadong.