Dragon 4 Cooperation
News
28/07/2021: Dragon 4 Final Results published by MDPI RS Special Issue
31/03/2021: Dragon 4 Midterm Results published by JGGS (Part 2 - Vol. 4 issue 1)
26/03/2021: 2021 Dragon Symposium, 19 to 23 July on-line
26/01/2021: Dragon 4 Midterm Results published by JGGS (Part 1 - Vol. 3 issue 4)
15/01/2021: Dragon 4 Executive summary for mobile devices
01/06/2018: Dragon 4 e-brochure on-line
Dragon is a cooperation between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the P.R. China. The Dragon 4 cooperation, commenced in July 2016 at the Wuhan Dragon 4 Kick-off Symposium and was completed on 21 July 2021 at the closing of the Dragon 4 final results Symposium. Starting in 2004, four phases have been completed, each lasting 4 years. The newest phase of the cooperation Dragon 5, was started in June 2020. The following summarises the Dragon cooperations to date:
- Dragon 1 (2004 to 2008)
- Dragon 2 (2008 to 2012)
- Dragon 3 (2012 to 2016)
- Dragon 4 (2016 to 2021)
- Dragon 5 (2020 to 2024).
This website concerns the Dragon 4 cooperation which focused on the scientific exploitation of ESA, ESA Third Party Missions, Copernicus Sentinels and Chinese EO data for geo-science and applications development. There were 8 topics including CAL / VAL, that addressed information provision for key societal issues facing Europe and China today. The fourth phase in the cooperation brought together 28 joint Sino-European teams to investigate the following topics using EO data from 30 satellite missions:
- Atmosphere, climate & carbon cycle
- Agriculture, food & water
- Urbanization & smart cities
- Ecosystems including forest and grasslands
- Oceans & coastal zones
- Solid earth & associated disaster risk reduction
- Hydrology and cryosphere
- Calibration/validation.
