[SDI-Europe] Successful cooperation extends Dragon Programme

[Kate Lance]

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8WRYZDFF_index_0.html
Successful cooperation extends Dragon Programme
More than 300 leading European and Chinese scientists gathered from 21 to 25 April 2008 in Beijing in the People’s Republic of China to present their results from the Dragon Programme, and to kick off the programme’s second phase, Dragon 2. The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China designed to encourage increased exploitation of ESA and Chinese Earth Observation (EO) satellite data within China.  
The Dragon 1 Programme, which began in April 2004, sought to stimulate increased scientific cooperation in EO science and applications between China and Europe. Under Dragon 1, there were 16 projects exploiting data from ESA EO missions, including agricultural and forest monitoring, water resource assessment, atmospheric chemistry, terrain measurement, the ocean environment and climate change. 
Unlike Dragon 1, Dragon 2 will provide European and Chinese scientists with equal access to the data available from relevant ESA and Chinese EO satellites. Dragon 2 will continue to pair lead and young scientists together, organise training seminars, offer advanced courses and provide academic exchanges and training programmes for European and Chinese scientists. Under Dragon 2, the number of projects has been increased to 25 following an Announcement of Opportunity, in which 52 proposals were received. The projects will cover the following themes (http://dragon2.esa.int/themes/ ): atmospheric studies, topographic mapping, hydrology, sea-ice monitoring, coastal-zones monitoring, land environment, geology, renewable resources, oceanography, hazards, large sports events and the calibration and validation of satellite data. 
Dragon 2 EO data delivery will commence in May 2008 and continue for four years. 
More information will be available via the Dragon 2 website, http://dragon2.esa.int/
Contact: dragon at esa.int


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