Odia Scientist Tapan Misra has been appointed as the head of Space Applications Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) .
Misra has been given this responsibility due to his experience for more than three decades.
ISRO's Space Applications Centre(SAC) was earlier headed by A S Kiran Kumar.
ABOUT TAPAN MISRA:
Tapan Misra is a graduate in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University.
He joined ISRO in early eighties as a digital hardware engineer, where he undertook the responsibility for the development of 'Quick Look Display System of X-band Side Looking Airborne Radar'.
Later, he became the lead member of the team which had designed and developed C-band Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
Misra has served to the system design, simulation, integration and ground calibration of multi-frequency scanning microwave radiometer instrument. It was carried abroad India's Oceansat-1 satellite.
During 2005-06, Tapan Misra was also associated with the development of a special airborne radar system for disaster management. He even led to the development of Scatterometer payload of Oceansat-2 which was launched in 2009. It provided important wind data to the global meteorological community.
He has been awarded the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in the year 2004 and ISRO Merit Award for his contribution to development SAR technology in the year 2008.
In the year 2007, Misra was also elected as fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and as corresponding member of International Academy of Astronautics in the year 2008. The scientist has 2 patents granted to his name, 6 pending patents, 5 copyrights and many research papers to his credit.
