On July 18, 2011, South Korea-China Agricultural Statistics and Remote Sensing Seminar jointly organized by National Bureau of Statistics and ESPRE of BNU was successfully held in 1007 conference room on the 10th floor of B building of Science and Technology Building of BNU. Organized by Professor Pan Yaozhong, the Seminar attracted experts from South Korean Statistics Department, Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agricultural Food, BNU and Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of CAS. Zheng Yunyang, Director of Information Technology Office, Department of Rural & Social Economic Survey of National Bureau of Statistics participated in the Seminar and served as an interpreter. Associate Professor Zhu Wenquan chaired the seminar.
All representatives delivered excellent reports. Official Mr. Pak Jaehwa introduced status quo and sensing application system of South Korean Statistics Department as well as identified the future work. Later on, two other officials also talked about sample survey methods and survey of crop area. In addition, Official Mr. Kim of Ministry of Environment introduced South Korea’s research on supervising plant coverage by remote sensing. Mr. An from Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries introduced problems found after the integration of South Korean former Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of Fisheries and future development strategy.
Associate Professor Zhu Wenquan of BNU made a systematic introduction and conclusion of the remote sensing works done by National Bureau of Statistics, including development milestones, technology framework, operation system, future work and possible problems. Attendees fully understood plant area of major crops and production calculation method and highly recommended the report. Deputy researcher Wang Li from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced survey on cotton plant area based on multi-source remote sensing data with Xinjiang Kuche Country as an example. Doctor Zhu Zaichun from BNU introduced “Beijing Biological Resource Calculation Business System”.
On the Seminar, experts from China and South Korea shared successful experiences in applying statistics remote sensing and discussed about sample survey technology, land coverage remote sensing supervision, and discussed future development of statistics remote sensing application in accordance with national conditions as well as possibility of future cooperation.