LUO Jing Visits AIR

On 12 April, LUO Jing, the Deputy Director-General of the Dept. of Science and Technology, State Administration of Cultural Heritage, visited the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) hosted by AIR, CAS.

LUO first toured the Miyun Ground Stations real-time operation center and watched videos introducing the Digital Heritage Science Platform. He and other representatives also visited the international organizations hosted by AIR and held a meeting with AIR Director-General GUO Huadong.

GUO thanked the delegates for their support in the construction of HIST, and spoke about the prominent role of space technology in heritage monitoring and archaeology. Afterwards, HIST Deputy Director and Secretary-General HONG Tianhua and HIST Deputy Director WANG Xinyuan introduced HIST’s current progress and research work. Both parties exchanged thoughts on how to better develop project cooperation in future.

Under the framework of strategic cooperation between the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, LUO explored possibilities for collaboration between the two organizations. It was agreed that remote sensing in archaeology had been increasingly accepted in the discipline through the efforts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and State Administration of Cultural Heritage, particularly by demonstrating that remote sensing technology possesses advantages in identifying and dynamically monitoring heritage sites. Both parties expressed their desire to continue to deepen scientific and technological cooperation and develop related technological research.

Mr. DIAO Daosheng of Dept. of Science and Technology, State Administration of Cultural Heritage was also in attendance.