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Jilin-1 Satellite Assists with Spring Plowing

Spring brings warmth, reviving all things, and farmers across various regions are seizing the favorable season to carry out agricultural activities. According to statistics, the Jilin-1 satellite has provided over 150 types of precise services in 14 areas, including agriculture and forestry, water conservancy, environmental protection, transportation, finance, natural resources, and urban construction. It has delivered high-quality remote sensing information services to more than 170 countries/regions. This article will detail how the Jilin-1 satellite assists spring plowing from 600,000 meters above the ground.


Strictly Enforcing Cultivated Land Protection


Cultivated land is the crucial foundation for grain production. China has maintained a total grain output of over 1.3 trillion jin for five consecutive years due to the significant contribution of cultivated land. Using high-resolution, high-frequency satellite data from Jilin-1, non-agricultural and non-grain uses of cultivated land can be precisely identified, effectively strengthening the management and protection of cultivated land, especially basic farmland.


Whole-Process Supervision of High-Standard Farmland


The construction of high-standard farmland is a key measure to consolidate and improve the grain production capacity, ensuring national food security. The 2024 No. 1 Central Document emphasizes: "Strengthening whole-process supervision of high-standard farmland construction to ensure every plot is built to standard." Using high-resolution, high-frequency data from the Jilin-1 satellite, comprehensive monitoring can be conducted for the planning and inspection before construction, management during construction, and maintenance and utilization after construction of high-standard farmland.


Providing Remote Sensing Monitoring Services for Crops


In Yushu City, Jilin Province, monitoring services are carried out for the planting distribution and growth conditions, soil moisture, disaster conditions, and yield of crops such as corn, rice, soybeans, and others.


The Jilin-1 satellite continuously photographs the area, extracting primary crops and conducting full-cycle monitoring of the crop growth period (including: crop growth conditions, canopy moisture, anomaly identification, pest and disease early warning, meteorological disaster early warning, accumulated temperature and rainfall). The analysis results are intuitively displayed using different colors, allowing farmers to easily understand the growth conditions of crops in different fields on different dates, aiding them in making agricultural decisions. By precisely managing the growth environment of crops, fertilization, and irrigation, the production process is optimized, and agricultural production costs are reduced.


The Jilin-1 satellite constellation has launched a total of 131 networking satellites, capable of revisiting any location worldwide 35-37 times a day, and achieving three global coverages and nine national coverages annually. In addition to satellite remote sensing data, the Jilin-1 satellite also integrates crop remote real-time monitoring data, smart irrigation equipment data, and various IoT data, such as basic cultivated land information, agricultural mechanization production data, and meteorological data. These data are displayed comprehensively from multiple dimensions, including fertile fields, good practices, good techniques, good strategies, agricultural remote sensing, and precise meteorology, creating a unified agricultural data map.