SCSIO undertake a project of Dragon 3 Programme
The Dragon 3 Kick Off Symposium took place from 28 to 29 June 2012 in Beijing, China. Profs Danling Tang and Chuqun Chen of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), CAS undertook a project of Dragon 3 Programme, that is about marine environment investigation in the China Seas. About 300 scientists from Chinese and European countries have attended the symposium
Professor Tang Danling, PI of this project gave a presentation at the symposium to introduce the project. PIs of this project include Professors Danling Tang, Chuqun Chen (Chinese PIs), and Prof Werner Alpers and Samantha Lavender (European PIs); 22 co-investigators are from 12 research institutions in Chinese and European countries. The duration of Dragon 3 Programme is 2012-2016.
This project is "Study of oil pollution, land-based pollution, phytoplankton and macro-algal blooms, and coral reef degradation in the China Seas (OPAC)", It has four objectives: Detection of 1) anthropogenic pollution of the sea, like oil pollution and land-based pollution, 2) phytoplankton blooms, and 3) macro-algal blooms in the Chinese Seas using space-borne synthetic aperture and optical/infrared images, and 4) monitoring the degradation of coral reefs in the South China Sea.
The OPAC project will investigate under what conditions Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can be used to monitor enhanced (and sometimes harmful) biological activity in the ocean. This requires a close cooperation of remote sensing scientists working with SAR and optical/infrared sensors. 300 archived Envisat ASAR and MERIS images, 200 real time ASAR and MERIS images, and some SAR data from the satellite HJ-1C, Sentinel 1, Sentinel 3 will be used in this project.
The Dragon Programme is the largest cooperation in the field of Earth observation application between China and Europe, which promoted by the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC), an entity under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the P.R. China and European Space Agency (ESA). Dragon 3 (2012-2016) focuses on exploitation of ESA, TPM and Chinese EO data for geo-science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications. The Programme brings together joint Sino-European teams to investigate 50 thematic projects.
