China launches cloud platform to share remote-sensing achievements

BEIJING -- China launched an open cloud platform on Friday to provide the public with a series of aerospace information application services, including remote-sensing data.

The GEOVIS Cloud Open Platform is expected to support fields such as smart agriculture, environmental protection, urban planning, traffic monitoring and natural disaster warning.

It was designed to lower the threshold for users to access aerospace information services. Some common remote-sensing products for key parameters such as vegetation ecology, water resources, soil and atmosphere were also introduced on the platform.

In recent years, China has put more satellites into orbit and has achieved continuous progress in observation methods such as the high-resolution Earth observation system. Meanwhile, the country's remote-sensing data acquisition capability and the richness of available resources have also been greatly improved.

The remote-sensing satellite technology is empowering multiple industries with its unique ability to cover space and time, and to obtain high-precision information.