Pakistan, China jointly build LiDAR network under the Belt and Road Initiative

Beijing Review | Sep 6, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • The Peshawar Station under the Belt and Road Initiative LiDAR Network  initiated by China’s Lanzhou University has been set up in Pakistan in August 2022.
  • The Peshawar Station, the first atmospheric lidar observation station in Pakistan, will serve for the forecast of weather and environmental disasters and researches on global climate change by providing basic data.
  • Stretching across over 8,000 kilometers, it is planned to set up 14 ground-based observing stations to obtain the atmospheric monitoring data in arid and semi-arid regions all over the world.