Recently, the spectrum technology is used to monitor the typical vegetation in the waterhead area of China's three major rivers (the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Lancang River).

It is the first cooperation in spectrum monitor between Environment Monitoring Center of Qinghai Province and Satellite Environment Application Center of the Environmental Protection Department.

By adopting the traditional and modern spectrum monitoring technology combined, it monitors spectrum information of typical vegetation samples and community structure, coverage degree, frequency, based-live biomass, etc.

Through spectrum monitoring, the primary spectrum information of typical vegetation in the waterhead area of three major rivers can be obtained. In this way, scientific data will be provided for the analysis of biological situation in these areas with the assistance of the remote-sensing monitory system.