Gao Xiang, Director General

Li Zengyuan, Dragon Coordinator

Song Song, Division Chief

Gao Zhihai, Dragon Office

Zou Yingman, Dragon Office

Sun Bin, Dragon Office

Wu Junna, Dragon Office

Rune Floberghagen, Head of Dragon Office

Eric Doyle, Dragon Coordinator

Karl Bergquist, External Relations

Jenni Tapio, External Relations

Fabrizio Ramoino, Dragon Office

Irene Renis, Dragon Office

Raffaele Rigoli, Dragon Office

Florence Boye, Dragon Office

The 2025 Dragon 6 Symposium will bring together the project teams that will report on the progress of each project to date including the latest scientific results and in particular:

• Detail the Copernicus Sentinels, ESA, ESA TPM, and Chinese EO data acquired and investigated during the first year of activity
• Detail the in-situ data measurements and requirements particularly joint field visits made to study areas in the last year
• Report on the role of young scientists within the projects and presentation of their results in a dedicated poster session
• Outline academic exchange programmes developed
• Outline the progress, status of the cooperation and recommendations within the project.

The symposium will focus around the following themes:

• Atmosphere
• Calibration and Validation
• Climate Change
• Cryosphere and Hydrology
• Data Analysis
• Ecosystem
• Ocean and Coastal Zones
• Solid Earth
• Sustainable Agriculture and Water Resources
• Urbanization and Environment

Please use the online system to:

1. Create a user account
2. Submit your abstract in English
3. Upload your abstract in Chinese (for oral presentations)

After completion of each of the actions 1 to 3, you should receive auto-generated emails with confirmations.

Oral Session – Principal Investigators

We kindly request a single project abstract in English is submitted on the abstract submission system by either the European or Chinese project PI.  We also request the abstract is uploaded as a PDF attachment in Chinese.

Poster Session – Young Scientists

All Dragon 6 Young Scientists are kindly required to submit a poster abstract in English using the same link as above.

The 2025 Dragon 6 Symposium is organised into four parallel sessions. Each session will include:

• Joint oral and poster presentation of Dragon project results relevant to each theme
• Round table discussions with seed questions prepared by the Dragon coordinators
• Reporting on each of the thematic area outputs and discussions

There will be an adjudicated poster event for young scientists to present the results of their Dragon project on the afternoon of Tuesday 15 July 2025.