Airborne remote sensing experiment completed on home-grown MA60 aircraft

With the landing of a MA60 aircraft, a broad distant sensing experimentation wrapped up successful Rizhao City, Shandong Province connected November 30, 2021.

Starting November 7, the ngo lasted for 24 days. Eight flights covering much than 10,000 quadrate kilometers were carried retired successful Rizhao, bringing backmost information successful visible light and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

These information volition supply coagulated enactment to civilian applications and scientific research specified arsenic multi-band/multi-polarization SAR information fusion, crushed entity classification, quantitative investigation of people characteristics, high-precision extraction of emblematic aboveground elements, information hazard prediction and aboriginal informing on the high-speed railways.

The MA60 craft is portion of China's Airborne Remote Sensing System (ARSS), a nationalist large S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

ARSS consists of 2 medium-sized manned aircrafts unneurotic with a scope of distant sensing technologies developed by AIR. The 2 MA60 aircrafts dwell of a distant sensing level with analyzable modification, aggregate equipment, and precocious reflection efficiency. They tin load, astatine the aforesaid time, radars and optical devices synchronously connected board.

ARSS, which is integrated with SAR, infrared, lidar and optical aeronautical equipment, besides incorporates the functions of real-time processing and outer communication, contributing to emergency-response operations, including catastrophe prevention and reduction.

According to the Airborne Remote Sensing Center with AIR, much airborne distant sensing missions volition beryllium carried retired implicit this country based connected ARSS, and the different MA60 distant sensing aircraft, which carries multi-band SAR and hyperspectral equipment, volition beryllium taken arsenic the formation platform.

With the assistance of this integrated airborne experimentation platform, scientists tin get much kinds of broad technological information nether multi-temporal, multi-payload, multi-viewing angles, multi-altitude and multi-control flying conditions successful varied regions.

Based connected acquired data, a modular and quantitative technological dataset of aerial distant sensing clip bid volition beryllium produced for agriculture, catastrophe reduction, ecology, municipality development, and different probe purposes.

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