- ID: 8284879
- Dateline: Aug 4, 2022/File
- Location: China;
- Duration: 1’32
- Source: China Central Television (CCTV)
- Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland
- Published: 2022-08-05 17:09
- Last Modified: 2022-08-05 17:12
- English
Shotlist
FILE: Hubei Province, central China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shots of forests, lake
FILE: Guangdong Province, south China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
2. Aerial shots of forests, village
Beijing, China – Aug 4, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Huang Jin, general chief designer for Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring Satellites with Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite under China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) (partially overlaid with shot 4):
“This satellite is ultimately designed to assess our country’s carbon sequestration capacity through forest observations.”
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4. Animations showing satellite working
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Beijing, China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of engineering working, studying satellite
Beijing, China – Aug 4, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
6. Animations showing satellite working
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Huang Jin, general chief designer for Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring Satellites with Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite under China Academy of Space Technology (CAST):
“With this satellite, we can, by means of remote sensing, automatically acquire all data of the forests below the flight routes of the satellite, including the woods’ heights, acreage and growth of trees, thus cutting the workload of deploying a large number of forest workers to survey and measure the forests on the spot.”
8. Animations showing satellite working
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, north China – Aug 4, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
9. Long March-4B carrier rocket blasting off
Storyline
China’s first terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite that was launched on Thursday is expected to play an important role in offering data support on the country’s forest carbon sink, so as to help meet China’s goals of “carbon peak” by 2030 and “carbon neutrality” by 2060, according to a chief designer on Thursday.
The terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite, along with two other satellites, was launched atop a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province at 11:08 local time (0308 GMT) on Thursday, and entered the predetermined orbit successfully.
The satellite is mainly used for terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring, survey and monitoring of terrestrial ecology and resources, major national ecological projects monitoring and evaluation.
“This satellite is ultimately designed to assess our country’s carbon sequestration capacity through forest observations,” said Huang Jin, general chief designer for Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring Satellite with the Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite under China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
According to Huang, the satellite can improve the accuracy of monitoring the forest carbon sink by diversifying the observation methods.
“With this satellite, we can, by means of remote sensing, automatically acquire all data of the forests below the flight routes of the satellite, including the woods’ heights, acreage and growth of trees, thus cutting the workload of deploying a large number of forest workers to survey and measure the forests on the spot,” he said.
