Dragon Cooperation Programme

Activities
Dragon Cooperation Programme

Dragon Cooperation Programme

Activity

Overview

ESA, together with the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC), an entity under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China, have cooperated in the field of Earth observation (EO) application development. The cooperation has now taken on a new momentum with the creation of a dedicated three-year Earth observation exploitation programme called Dragon (2004 to 2007). The programme formally kicked-off in April 2004 with a three day symposium that was held in Xiamen City in China.

The Dragon Programme focussed on science and applications development in China using mainly data from the ERS and Envisat missions.

Objectives

To promote the use of ESA EO data from the ERS and Envisat satellites
To stimulate scientific exchange in EO science and technology by the formation of joint Sino-European teams
To publish co-authored results of the research and applications development
To provide training in processing, algorithm and product development from ESA EO data in land, ocean and atmospheric applications
The benefit and contribution of the expected work is to research application development in 16 thematic application projects related to land, ocean and atmospheric monitoring.