Satellite ground station network completed  

中国遥感卫星地面站“三足鼎立”组网运行

中科院科学传播局(筹)5日提供信息说，中国遥感卫星地面站已形成完整的卫星数据接收、传输、存档、处理、分发体系，数据接收、数据传输、数据处理、数据管理、数据检索与技术服务等系统协同运行，具备覆盖全国疆土的数据接收、处理和共享分发服务能力。

Beijing (CNS) -- A network of remote sensing satellite ground stations covering all of China's territory has been completed after 27 years of construction, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.

The network comprises three ground stations in Miyun County (suburban Beijing), Kashgar (Xinjiang) and Sanya (Hainan).

The network can receive, transmit, store, process and distribute remote sensing data from satellites to obtain information from all of China's territory.

As an important national-level infrastructure for civilian use, and an important member of the international earth resource satellite ground station network, this network has so far received and stored up to 3.1 million satellite pictures since 1986.

It is the largest earth observation satellite database in China and one of the largest institutions for receiving and processing satellite data in the world, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Since it was set up some 20 years ago, the network has played an important role in securing major satellite data.

It has also provided continuous support to major national-level projects involving remote sensing data, and played a major role in disaster monitoring and evaluation.