Awards: Second Prize of 2012 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award

Lead researchers: Tang Huajun, Wang Changyao, Zhou Qingbo, Mao Liuxi, Liu Haiqi, Chen Zhongxin, Liu Jia, Zhang Qingyuan, Wu Wenbin, and Wang Limin

Since 1998, over 200 researchers from more than 10 leading Chinese agricultural remote sensing research units have been jointly researching a multi-source and multi-scale remote crop sensing monitoring technology system.

Centered on crop information acquisition and analysis as well as commercial application services, they have developed the crop information acquisition technology that integrates remote sensing and wireless sensor network, and China’s first spectral response diagnostic technology for remote crop monitoring.

In addition, the researchers created quantitative inversion algorithms and models that cover both crop parameters and farmland environments. It also established the only national such system, the China Agriculture Remote Sensing Monitoring System (CHARMS), which has been in stable operation for more than 10 years.

CHARMS is one of the agricultural remote sensing monitoring systems that the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) promotes worldwide.