To congratulate on the tenth aniversary of China’s Environment Remote Sensing Committee

Professor Chen Shupeng pointed out on the Symposium of Remote Sensing Developing Trend and Research Front in 1990s that remote sensing technique had been listed as national key project twice in the past ten years. Encouraging progress has been made since then. Remote sensing information has been popularized gradually in the applications of economic con- struction and national defense building up. New applied fields have also been developed and distinct social and economic benefits have been achieved. A new service trade of high technology and information has been preliminarily come into being. It has started to arouse attentions from the academic activities in both the Asian-Pacific region and the world.In the coming ten years during which Chinese government will implement its Ten-year Program

remote sensing technique has been listed as key project in the Eighth Five-Year Plan again. Professor Chen Shupeng has consulted with 32 professors and experts on the remote sensing developing trend in 1990s in China. Several major points can be concluded as follows.（1） The development and application of meteorological satellite information will reach its climax once again. Relatively sufficient preparation on theory

methodology and technology has been made in the past ten years; and successful experience on launching satellite Fengyun-1 achieved. The disadvantages needed to be avoided have also been found. Thus

in the coming ten years

as one of major information sources in environment remote sensing

meteorological satellite will play vanguard role in natural disaster monitoring

crop yield estimating and global environment change studying.（2） With regard to resource satellite remote sensing

the ground receiving station built up by China has achieved successful operation experiences

and developed and improved the function of. receiving data and images from various satellites. In 1990s

in the sky of the Asian and Pacific region

there will be five kinds of international remote sensing satellites

i.e.

Landsat-7

MOS

JERS

SPOT and ERS-1. The information sources will be very rich. The resource satellite cooperatively built up by China and Brazil will also join them in the middle of 1990s. It is expectel to provide real time assurance for information source after the establishment of remote sensing information system on natural disaster monitoring and crop yield estimating.（3） Airborne remote sensing technique system has made great progress in the past ten years. Break through both on design and application of airborne imagery spectrometer

multiple polarized side-looking radar

microwave radiometer and light aircraft; and on all-weather

information transmission and digital image processing has been made. It will be got stable and continuous development in urban planning and management

mineral deposit and petroleum field seeking

manufactory site and power station choosing

and disaster preventing

etc. Especially

it will be used to meet the urgent needs for investment environment evaluation in open cities.（4） The equipment potentiality and technical progress made in the past ten years should be fully used in the key projects of the Eighth Five-Year Plan taking two stnategic targets

"natural disaster prevention and harnessing" and "crop yield estimation"

as subjects so as to compose an integrated technical system with fairly intelligent level; and to be of functions of great storage capacity

real time transmission and quick processing.（5） To continue participating in the international cooperation program taking global study as target. To contribute active efforts to the Ten-Year International Disaster Reduction

the International Space Year and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program

etc.