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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3122)	4/28/2004 12:50:34 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) of 6370

Enter The Dragon: ESA And China's Joint Earth Watch Begins More than a hundred leading European and Chinese scientists meet today on the island city of Xiamen to commence the Dragon Programme - a wide-ranging research initiative employing ESA Earth Observation data to focus on China. The sheer size and variety of this vast land means that satellites are particularly useful for its study. The 9.6 million square kilometres of Chinese territory range from Himalayan peaks to tropical lowlands. China is home to one in every five humans now alive, and is the world's second largest - and single fastest-growing - economy. The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China and the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC). Its purpose is to encourage increased exploitation of ESA space resources within China as well as stimulate increased scientific co-operation in the field of Earth Observation science and technology between China and Europe. The Dragon Programme was initiated following a September 2003 meeting in Paris between Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director of ESA and Prof. Xu Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology for the People's Republic of China. Today is the start of a three-day symposium in Xiamen formally kicking-off the initiative. Participating Sino-European research teams are being joined by ESA Director for Earth Observation Programmes Professor Jose Achache and Mr. Zhang Guocheng, Deputy Director-General of NRSCC. "Remote sensing technology has a wide amount of potential applications, including the evaluation and monitoring of resources and responding to natural disasters," says Guocheng. "ESA occupies an advantageous position in this field and the Dragon Programme promises to open up new fields for MOST-ESA cooperation, as well as aiding the development of applied remote sensing within China." sciencedaily.com

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