The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's Department of Natural Resources has recently issued the "Implementation Plan for the Three-Year Action Plan for Building Natural Resources Satellite Remote Sensing Application Capabilities (2025-2027)". This plan sets targets for technological upgrades, application expansion, and mechanism innovation, outlining 14 key tasks across six areas to comprehensively enhance the supportive role of satellite remote sensing in natural resources governance. It also aims to use technical cooperation as a link to deepen exchanges and collaboration with ASEAN countries, injecting technological momentum into the development of a prosperous Guangxi.
The plan specifies that by the end of 2027, Guangxi will achieve iterative upgrades to its natural resources satellite remote sensing technology system, continuously optimize data acquisition and supply capabilities, and make comprehensive breakthroughs in key bottlenecks for intelligent, quantitative, large-scale, and operational applications. On this basis, it will further consolidate and expand remote sensing application scenarios, improve the multi-level coordination mechanism from the autonomous region down to cities and counties, and elevate cooperation and exchanges between China and ASEAN nations in the field of satellite remote sensing to a new level.
To achieve these goals, the plan deploys 14 key tasks, forming a comprehensive implementation system. In terms of strengthening the data coordination foundation and building a robust base for intelligent remote sensing applications, the focus is on enhancing satellite remote sensing data support capabilities and reinforcing aerial remote sensing data supplementation to ensure data services are synchronized with the operational needs of natural resources management. Efforts will concentrate on standardizing geospatial data, building integrated databases, and improving the intelligence of satellite remote sensing interpretation, aiming to promote the construction of a unified geographic base map—the "one map" for natural resources—and accelerate the development of satellite remote sensing application support databases.
Focusing on the challenges of data autonomy and localized application, key technological breakthroughs will be pursued in areas such as constructing application-ready satellite remote sensing big data (ARD), multi-payload collaborative applications, developing large-scale natural resources remote sensing models, and quantitative inversion analysis. These technological breakthroughs are intended to drive changes in remote sensing application management models.
Regarding expanding application services and enhancing the effectiveness of the multi-level coordination system, efforts will continue to deepen fundamental surveys and dynamic monitoring in core areas such as land, geology and minerals, oceans, forestry, and grasslands. Simultaneously, the scope of technological enablement will be extended to multiple industries across the region, achieving widespread coverage of remote sensing services from the natural resources sector to all areas of economic and social development. The plan also focuses on smoothing the channels for vertical and horizontal expansion of the satellite remote sensing application ecosystem, leveraging the ministry-province coordination mechanism, strengthening the autonomous region-city-county satellite remote sensing application system, and promoting the integrated and innovative development of satellite remote sensing applications.
Capitalizing on Guangxi's geographical advantages, the plan specifically includes a task to deepen remote sensing application cooperation with ASEAN countries. Using the China-ASEAN Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center as a key platform, it aims to strengthen exchanges with ASEAN and other Belt and Road Initiative partner countries, deepen bilateral and multilateral cooperation in surveying, mapping, and geoinformation, promote satellite remote sensing data sharing and technology export, and jointly build new platforms for regional cooperation.