Song Chaozhi, the deputy director-general of the National Administration of Surveying,Mapping and Geological Information, announced that China‘s first civilian stereomapping satellite ZY-3 will be launched at the end of the year at a news conferenceheld by the State Council Information Office of the People‘s Republic of China on Aug. 8. In the new satellite, the variation of terrain, landform, the earth‘s surface and thesurface features, and the western 1:50000 primary scale topographic maps should berevamped continuously. Read More
