Current situations and proposals of future earth observation missions in China

摘要

By presenting the current development goals of space geosciences and the status of Earth observation missions in China, and combining with the future research directions of technologies that China needs to strengthen, the development strategy and proposals on the key technologies used in China's Earth observation missions in the next 10~15 years had been discussed in this article, the results showed China's Earth observation mission has always focused on the study of the earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and their interactions as a whole system. At present, China has initially established a series of satellite systems and plan to launch a number of next-generation scientific and application satellites for land, oceanographic and atmosphere. Proposals of future technology development in China's Earth observation mission includes the application of InSAR, space Lidar, LEO-LEO occultation measurements, special orbits and observation methods. Based on these, this paper expected China will become a powerful force of Space-Earth observation by 2035 and can give enlightenment to those related to space engineering management, and also give contribute to the enhancement of innovation capabilities in the multiple observation methods of future Earth observation mission in China.