On October 12th, Capital Urban Environment Construction Research Base of BCU, referred to as the CUECR, invited Dr. Yang Tengfei, a postdoctoral researcher from the National Earth Observation Data Center (NODA), to our Zhongguancun campus for academic lectures and exchanges. The two parties intend to establish a long-term collaborative research relationship in areas such as urban aerial observation big data and AI algorithms. It aims to provide sustainable technological support and resource sharing services for research development of BCU.

Dr. Yang delivered a brilliant report on the governance and application of scientific data in the field of Earth observation to the research personnel at the base. The report provided a detailed introduction to the background and development strategy of NODA, as well as the National Earth Observation Data Center Hundred Schools Tour and other application service projects, proposing strategies for addressing data issues and challenges in the new era. It aims to establish a new data ecosystem within the framework of the universities and research institutions’ technological innovation ecology, and to enhance the international influence of China's Earth observation data and the utilization of remote sensing data. It also specifically introduced the important open resources of NODA, including Earth observation scientific datasets, large-scale computing resources, laboratory open funds, international cooperation programs, journal papers, and competition events.

Professor Liu, the chief expert of the CUECR, commended Dr. Yang's high-quality academic report, which expanded the depth of research in the field of the CUECR and solved the challenges of big data and algorithms required by the research institute. He believed that although this exchange was just a small part of the National Earth Observation Data Center Hundred Schools Tour, it opened up a new situation of collaborative scientific research between the CUECR and national-level institutions. In the future, the CUECR will combine the multi-modal data and powerful computing technology of NODA to vigorously carry out a series of joint research activities in areas such as urban management, urban disaster research, urban environment, and green development. It will actively promote and collaborate with relevant schools of the universities to participate in NODA's Digital China and Sharing Cup innovation competitions, thereby assisting in the high-quality development of scientific research activities of BCU.