From August 6 to 10, 2018, the 1st International symposium on the Cloud Remote Sensing, Atmosphere Radiation and Renewal Energy Application - Localized Monitoring (CARE2018: The 1st International symposium on the Cloud Remote Sensing, Atmosphere Radiation and Renewal Energy Application (CARE-2018)) was held in Beijing. Cloud Remote Sensing, Atmosphere Radiation and Renewal Energy Application (CARE-2018)) was held in Beijing. The symposium was organized by the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, and the Research and Information Center, Tokai University, Japan, and co-organized by the Institute of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Nanjing Information Engineering University CARE 2018 is initiated by Researcher Hüsler Tu of Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and is the chairman of the conference organizing committee.

　　Academician Guangyu Shi from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Director Jiancheng Shi from State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Professor Teruyuki Nakajima from Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and more than 70 participants from Tokai University, Tohoku University, Beijing Normal University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, University of Lille, France The workshop was attended by more than 70 participants from Tokai University, Tohoku University, Beijing Normal University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Lille University, France, Texas A&M University, Institute of Meteorological Sciences, University of Mining and Technology, Lanzhou University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University, National University of Defense Technology, and Nanjing University of Information Engineering.

　　At the opening ceremony, Director Shi Jiancheng delivered a welcome speech, introduced the main research directions and tasks of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and hoped that this conference would promote in-depth cooperation among research organizations in atmospheric remote sensing and related fields. Professor Kohei Cho, Research and Information Center of Tokai University, Japan, emphasized the concept and importance of localized monitoring, and made a presentation around the education and research exchange between Remote Sensing Earth Institute and Tokai University, Japan. Researcher Hüsler Tu, Institute of Remote Sensing of the Earth, gave an opening speech, hoping that this conference would promote international cooperation and development in the fields of cloud remote sensing, atmospheric radiation, atmospheric particle light scattering, new energy applications, and localized monitoring.

　　The conference has four topics: radiation-climate change, global/indigenous and disaster monitoring, particle scattering and cloud inversion, and cloud-aerosol interactions. Researchers Hongbin Chen from Institute of Atmospheric Research, Takashi Y. Nakajima from Tokai University, Japan, Jér?me Riedi from University of Lille, France, Hua Zhang from Climate Research Center of Meteorological Administration, and Tijian Wang from Nanjing University gave lectures on cloud comparison analysis between ground-based and satellite active remote sensing of ARM sites in Southern Great Plains, satellite atmospheric observation and its application in revealing cloud evolution process and solar irradiance estimation, the progress of 3MI mission, the development and application of the new radiation transport model BCC_RAD, aerosol-radiation-cloud interaction and its impact on the East Asian summer monsoon, and other international frontier issues were presented.

　　This symposium aims to promote research on the characteristics of atmospheric cloud radiation and its possible impact on climate change in East Asia in recent years and international academic exchanges, and further promote the application of atmospheric remote sensing technology in the fields of surface radiation estimation, climate change research, solar power generation forecasting and new energy application assessment.

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Director Shi Jiancheng delivered a welcome speech