Given that 42% of the world’s natural disasters in the past decade occurred in the Asia Pacific region and in order to help developing countries enhance their disaster mitigation capacity, SDIM carried out the Joint Program on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation in Asia from 2013 to 2015, and developed core research systems represented by the China-Mongolia DroughtWatch system, China-Thailand flood expert diagnosis system, and database and sharing platform of space technology for disaster mitigation in Asia.

In 2016, according to the international cooperation plan of CAS Bureau of International Cooperation for the Belt and Road Initiative, SDIM mapped out a plan for the next three years, and launched the Joint Program on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation in order to support developing countries along the Belt and Road. Under this framework, SDIM will focus on the remote sensing and monitoring system for drought in Cambodia, research on sedimentation, geological disaster and sustainable development of the Angkor world heritage site, typhoon risk assessment on the South China Sea, and spatial cognition of water resources for areas along the Belt and Road.

Model system for remote sensing and monitoring of drought to be tranferred to Cambodia