ISRO General News and Updates

[Chinmoy]

World's largest $1.47-billion 'Thirty Meter Telescope' could be set up in Ladakh

http://www.newsnation.in/article/12...y-meter-telescope-may-be-set-up-in-india.html

 

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Recruitment for the Post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) in ACL Bengluru

 

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If Some people not know about an important state owned body in Indian Space Odyssey.
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

 

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VSSC Museum

 

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@Dazzler
This type of images are which I'm asking from you of suparco.

 

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ISRO Headquarters are also not less beautiful.

Control Room is awesome as well.

 

[Chinmoy]

ISRO confirms that Mangalyaan uses Airtel 4G to send pics of Mars

New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has confirmed that the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan uses the 4G network from Airtel to send pics of Mars from space.


Mars Ji nahin, 4G

Expressing happiness over the coverage provided by Airtel 4G, ISRO chief thanked Airtel for the excellent coverage they provide in space. He said that Airtel has set a new standard in providing data services – other networks provide services at state level, national level and even international level, but what Airtel has done falls under “Interstellar Services”. He also mentioned that ISRO plans to use Airtel services for all its future missions.

Airtel was quick to patent the term “Interstellar Services”. Airtel now plans to send the Airtel girl to International Space Station to shoot the next Airtel 4G advertisement. When asked to comment on ISRO planning to use Airtel 4G in its future missions, Airtel expressed happiness with caution. The Airtel girl told us that Airtel 4G will definitely help ISRO in all its missions till Jupiter, but for anything beyond Jupiter, she will check with her boss and will get back to us.

Airtel girl also targeted all those people who made fun of her and her ads. “All those people who were making fun of me and 4G services are eating humble pie now.”, she said. Airtel has already started airing its ads across the solar system to try and get NASA on board as a client as well.


Airtel Ad playing across galaxies now

Meanwhile, Airtel subscribers in India have requested Airtel to provide 4G coverage in cities as well and not just at rem

http://www.fakingnews.firstpost.com...ngalyaan-uses-airtel-4g-to-send-pics-of-mars/



Just for laughs...............

 

[Indx TechStyle]

ISRO confirms that Mangalyaan uses Airtel 4G to send pics of Mars

New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has confirmed that the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan uses the 4G network from Airtel to send pics of Mars from space.


Mars Ji nahin, 4G

Expressing happiness over the coverage provided by Airtel 4G, ISRO chief thanked Airtel for the excellent coverage they provide in space. He said that Airtel has set a new standard in providing data services – other networks provide services at state level, national level and even international level, but what Airtel has done falls under “Interstellar Services”. He also mentioned that ISRO plans to use Airtel services for all its future missions.

Airtel was quick to patent the term “Interstellar Services”. Airtel now plans to send the Airtel girl to International Space Station to shoot the next Airtel 4G advertisement. When asked to comment on ISRO planning to use Airtel 4G in its future missions, Airtel expressed happiness with caution. The Airtel girl told us that Airtel 4G will definitely help ISRO in all its missions till Jupiter, but for anything beyond Jupiter, she will check with her boss and will get back to us.

Airtel girl also targeted all those people who made fun of her and her ads. “All those people who were making fun of me and 4G services are eating humble pie now.”, she said. Airtel has already started airing its ads across the solar system to try and get NASA on board as a client as well.


Airtel Ad playing across galaxies now

Meanwhile, Airtel subscribers in India have requested Airtel to provide 4G coverage in cities as well and not just at rem

http://www.fakingnews.firstpost.com...ngalyaan-uses-airtel-4g-to-send-pics-of-mars/



Just for laughs...............

My faking News!!



R.I.P. 30 character rule.

 

[cobra commando]

India's own space shuttle to be ready by mid-May from ISRO

 

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India's own space shuttle to be ready by mid-May from ISRO

Was just about to post.
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

 

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Reference from the link

Indian Space Research Organisation is planning the technology demonstration of its Reusable Launch Vehicle, expected to make space missions economically viable, by mid May.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Indian Space Research Organisation is planning the technology demonstration of its Reusable Launch Vehicle, expected to make space missions economically viable, by mid May.

The flight integration of the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is almost complete at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here and it will be shifted to Bengaluru for further tests next week, VSSC Director K Sivan said today.

"RLV-TD is almost integrated and tests are progressing. It will be shifted to Bengaluru next week for an acoustic test and then to Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota (SHAR) for final preparations before the launch," he told reporters here.

"We want clear weather conditions for the launch. We hope it will happen by first half of May," he said.

RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realising a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle.

Under the preliminary mission, which is planned as a suborbital one, a double-delta winged vehicle, which more or less resembles an aircraft, will be launched from the SHAR.

The 6.5 meter-long vehicle, having a mass of 1.75 tonne, will go up to around 70 km after which it is expected to descend at a particular point on the sea.

Sivan said the proposed mission would be just a "baby step" in terms of the RLV technology and no way near to the real Reusable Launch Vehicle.

"What we do now is only a demonstration. It is no way near to the real RLV. It is like a drop test to bring back a launched vehicle to some point. It is just a baby step towards the giant leap," he said.

Flush air-data system, slow burningpropellant and compositemovablefinare among the significant features of the RLV-TD.

The total cost of the mission is estimated to be around Rs 95 crore, the VSSC Director said adding the launch would give major inputs for the designing of the full scale RLV in future.

 

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this thread makes me happy

 

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this thread makes me happy

If you will open sticky threads on defense too. You will get more exciting info from them as well as now a days, we are rising in all aspects.

 

[Anupu]

Reference from the link

Indian Space Research Organisation is planning the technology demonstration of its Reusable Launch Vehicle, expected to make space missions economically viable, by mid May.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Indian Space Research Organisation is planning the technology demonstration of its Reusable Launch Vehicle, expected to make space missions economically viable, by mid May.

The flight integration of the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is almost complete at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here and it will be shifted to Bengaluru for further tests next week, VSSC Director K Sivan said today.

"RLV-TD is almost integrated and tests are progressing. It will be shifted to Bengaluru next week for an acoustic test and then to Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota (SHAR) for final preparations before the launch," he told reporters here.

"We want clear weather conditions for the launch. We hope it will happen by first half of May," he said.

RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realising a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle.

Under the preliminary mission, which is planned as a suborbital one, a double-delta winged vehicle, which more or less resembles an aircraft, will be launched from the SHAR.

The 6.5 meter-long vehicle, having a mass of 1.75 tonne, will go up to around 70 km after which it is expected to descend at a particular point on the sea.

Sivan said the proposed mission would be just a "baby step" in terms of the RLV technology and no way near to the real Reusable Launch Vehicle.

"What we do now is only a demonstration. It is no way near to the real RLV. It is like a drop test to bring back a launched vehicle to some point. It is just a baby step towards the giant leap," he said.

Flush air-data system, slow burningpropellant and compositemovablefinare among the significant features of the RLV-TD.

The total cost of the mission is estimated to be around Rs 95 crore, the VSSC Director said adding the launch would give major inputs for the designing of the full scale RLV in future.

I just hope people remember it's an experiment, many more needed before it will become a functional product.

 

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ISRO to launch record 22 satellites in single mission
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Story of the Week
Geo-Spatial Technology for Expansion of Sericulture in India
Indian sericulture is an age old practice, producing all four types of natural silk namely, Mulberry, Tasar, Eri and Muga. Sericulture production is limited to a few pockets in our country and declining in areas under silkworm food plants is a matter of concern. The current production (about 28,708 MT during 2014-15) is not adequate to meet the demand for silk in the country. Realizing the tremendous scope for improving the production and quality of silk through intervention of Geo-spatial tools and web technology, an ambitious project was taken up by Central Silk Board (CSB) for implementation during 2008-09 to 2013-14 period with an objective of identifying the additional potential areas for development of silkworm food plants for 108 priority districts from 24 States at 1: 50,000 scale in three phases:

• Phase I: 41 districts covering all 8 States in North Eastern Region (NER).
• Phase II: 45 districts covering 11 other non-traditional States namely, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
• Phase III: 22 districts in 5 traditional States namely Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

It was also envisaged to develop a Geo-portal for integrating the potential area maps along with other required information for expansion of sericulture at district level. The project, unique of its kind was implemented by North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC)in collaboration within State Remote Sensing Application Centres and State Directorates of Sericulture in the selected 24 States.

Methodology

Identification of potential areas for sericulture development involves evaluation of land, water resources and climatic requirements for growing silkworm food plants as well as rearing of silk worms. It needs interpretation and integration of soils, climatic parameters, vegetation and other aspects of land, like wastelands and slope using GIS. As there is limited scope of expansion of plantations under silkworm food plants, emphasis was given to identify cultivable wastelands using satellite data with standard classification approach. Six parameters of soil namely, drainage, ground water, texture, depth and pH and two topographic parameters namely, slope and erosion were considered for suitability evaluation.

Suitability of climate for the food plants are described in terms of: (i) temperature (ii) rainfall (water supply) and (iii) minimal length of growing period. The weather data, collected from India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) established by ISRO was analyzed for rainfall, maximum and minimum temperature, Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and Length of Growing Period (LGP) for the silkworm food plants.

The most important environmental factors for rearing of silkworm are atmospheric temperature and humidity prevailing at the time of rearing. The combined effect of both temperature and humidity largely determines the satisfactory growth of the silkworms. The optimum temperature and humidity for normal growth in mulberry silkworm is between 23-28 0C and 70-85% RH (relative humidity) respectively. Spatial layers on the temperature suitability for silkworm were generated as it was done in case of silkworm food plants.

Results:

a) Additional area suitable for Mulberry host plants in North Eastern States

Out of total 108 districts, 41 districts were selected from 8 NE States covering a total geographical area of 9,35,195 sq km. Among the NE States, Nagaland is found to have maximum suitable areas- 21.9% of Total Geographical Area (TGA) that can be brought under Mulberry Sericulture. This is followed by Meghalaya (15.8%) and Sikkim (15.7%). Due to limitation of physiographic conditions and climate, Arunachal Pradesh is having very limited areas (17,242 ha in selected 7 districts) that can be brought under sericulture activities.

b) Additional area suitable for Mulberry host plants in other selected States

Among non-traditional sericulture states, Bihar has been found to have the highest percentage of areas suitable for mulberry sericulture, which is about 11% of TGA in the selected 3 districts, followed by Madhya Pradesh (10.2%) and Himachal Pradesh (9.7%). Among traditional sericulture States, Karnataka is found to have as high as 11.6% of TGA in the selected districts are suitable for mulberry sericulture. The state of Punjab has been found to be least suitable for Mulberry sericulture with only 521 ha of areas delineated as marginally suitable in the selected two districts. Other two States which have been found to be less suitable for Mulberry sericulture are Uttarakhand (0.05%) and Chhattisgarh (0.6%), but Uttarakhand has about 595 ha of area under highly suitable categories in the selected 5 districts. For non-mulberry sericulture, Bihar and West Bengal have significant proportion of suitable areas for Eri and West Bengal and Uttarakhand have significant suitable areas for Muga. For tropical Tasar, Orissa has the highest percent of suitable areas (25%of TGA) in the selected 4 districts followed by Jharkhand (21.2% of TGA) in the selected districts.

Development of SILKS Geo-portal

A Geo-portal titled Sericulture Information Linkages and Knowledge System (SILKS) has been developed as a single window decision support system to provide all the sericulture related information for all the selected 108 districts. The SILKS Geo-portaldeveloped as a part of the project has been put in the public domain. SILKS is a single window, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) -based information and advisory services system for farmers, sericulture extension workers, administrators and planners working in the field of sericulture development. The portal is now made available in 12 languages namely, English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali, Mizo, Manipuri, Khasi, Garo, AO-Naga and SUMI-Naga. It has 13 major non-spatial modules and 4 spatial modules, which are grouped into three categories, namely Planning Services, Other Services and Natural Resources Management. The available modules under Planning Services are Silkworm Food Plants Production Technologies, Techniques of Rearing Silkworm, Diseases and Pest Management of Silkworm Food Plants, Improved Varieties of Silkworm Food Plants, Species of Silkworm, Processing of Cocoons, Infrastructure and Equipments and Allied Sectors and Occupations. Other Service has modules like Micro Credit and Self Help Group, Seri Marketing, Seed Distribution Centres, Weaving Reeling Centres and Schemes & Grants for Farmers. Farmers Services module consists of Weather and Weather Advisory, Disease and Pest Forewarning and Support Services.

Within a short span of about two years, the portal has been able to make significant impact particularly in NER and a number of sericulture expansion activities have been initiated based on the outcome of the study. Regular updation of information content in the portal requires continuous support from all the stakeholders based on the feedback from the users particularly sericulture farmers.

A series of hand on trainings have been provided to officials and other stakeholders on the use of SILKS webportal. Recently SMS based sericulture advisory has been started in support of IMD, which is being linked to SILKS portal for maintaining the database and also to evaluate feedbacks. A Sericulture project atlas was released by Hon’ble Union Minister of Textiles on Nov. 17, 2015 at Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysore.

This project on Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Sericulture Development received National e-Governance SILVER Award 2014-15 under the category - "Innovative use of GIS Technology in e-Governance" by Department Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India.

Story of the Week - Archive
Apr 05, 2016 : Geo-spatial Technology for Expansion of Sericulture in India
Mar 28, 2016 : First Theme based On-line Outreach Programme conducted at IIRS on Geo-spatial Technologies for Urban Planning
Mar 21, 2016 : Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) established at NARL
Mar 15, 2016 : Vicarious CalVal Facility for Calibration of Satellite Sensors
Mar 07, 2016 : A new Brazing process for Semi-Cryo Engine established by ISRO
Feb 29, 2016 : Hot Isostatic Press Facility was inaugurated at VSSC
Feb 26, 2016 : ISRO participates in "Make In India Week"

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10th SPIE Asia Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium inaugurated ISRO working with as many as 60 Ministries of GoI: Dr Jitendra Singh
10th SPIE Asia Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium inaugurated

ISRO working with as many as 60 Ministries of GoI: Dr Jitendra Singh
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a 3-day International Conference & Exhibition on Space under the aegis of Asia Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium" here today.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the experience gained from various Space missions and its benefits have universal application and therefore, coming together of Space Scientists from different leading centres of the world does not only augur well for todays global world, but would also help in pooling our resources and inputs for a faster progress in the area of Space Technology. He expressed satisfaction at the fact that the major world centre of NASA is working in close collaboration with ISRO with the Indian Space Scientists and not only there is an exchange of scientific visits between the two centres from time to time, but many of Indian origin scientists like Sunita Williams have contributed richly to the NASA. At the same time, he also lauded participation of Space Scientists from France, Japan and China.

Dr Jitendra Singh said, it is a matter of pride that during the last two years of the Modi Government, Indias Department of Space and ISRO have been regularly launching foreign satellites from its launching stations at Sriharikota and the collaboration with Space centres across the world has been reinforced due to the personal initiative and interest taken by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi which has resulted in signing of a number of MoUs and further exchange of technical knowhow with countries across the world.

At the same time, Dr Jitendra Singh said, ISRO is expanding its activities and is now working with as many as 60 Ministries in Government of India and offering its inputs for developing Smart Cities", laying of new Railway tracks, construction of roads, assessment of soil and agricultural conditions, etc. He said ISRO portals Bhuvan" and MOSDAC" are providing satellite data which is being globally used across the world.

Similarly, images provided by Mangalyan Mission are also being borrowed by other Space Centres in the world, he added.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), along with the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), is organising the four-day, Asia Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016 (APRS-2016) beginning today. The Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), which is a professional society of more than 4000 scientists/researchers, is hosting this Symposium. The symposium aims to focus on the applications of remote sensing technologies for disaster mitigation and to better monitoring of global climate change. The deliberations of the symposium will generate new initiatives and collaborative international efforts.

About 100 International participants and 300 National participants are attending the symposium. Many Heads of Space Agency including the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), President of French National Space Agency (CNES), Vice President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Vice Administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA), Director General of EUMETSAT and Mexican Space Agency (AEM) are participating in the Symposium.

Todays symposium consisted of Special Plenary session on Next Steps in Space Observations - Vision for International Collaboration" with Chiefs of Many Space Agencies as distinguished speakers followed by a Panel discussion on 'Space, Earth and Humanity'. Another Plenary session on 'Roadmap to Space based Earth Observations & Applications' was held with distinguished speakers from India and abroad.

During the symposium, 7 parallel conferences distributed in 80 technical sessions and 10 poster sessions and an International Exhibition will be held. These conferences will be focussing on remote sensing for atmosphere, clouds, and precipitation, land surface and cryosphere, oceans and inland waters, Lidar for environmental monitoring, hyperspectral and ultraspectral technology, techniques and applications, earth observing missions and sensors, modeling of the atmosphere, oceans and interactions, etc. The participants from India and abroad will present their scientific work related to various aspects of remote sensing, the latest developments and applications, discuss cutting-edge technologies, exchange research ideas, and promote international collaboration.

The symposium was preceded by two-day pre-symposium tutorials on 'Trends and Challenges in Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics', 'Satellite Meteorology and Data Assimilation', Remote Sensing Optical Sensor Calibration and Characterisation, and 'Designing the Climate Observing System of the future.

Later in the evening, Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, ISRO, Major General Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., Administrator, NASA and Mr. Jean-Yves Le Gall, President, CNES addressed a Press Conference.

 

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APRS 2016: Nations discuss studying climate change through space tech

Participants including nations like the US, Japan, China and France focused on the applications of remote sensing technologies for disaster mitigation and to better monitor global climate change

Press Trust of India on April 5, 2016 at 12:38 AMEmail



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New Delhi, Apr 5: Leaders from space agencies from across the globe today discussed the possibility of studying effects of climate change with the help of space technologies, during the on-going Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium (APRS) here. Participants including nations like the US, Japan, China and France focused on the applications of remote sensing technologies for disaster mitigation and to better monitor global climate change, an official said.

“This is another activity where the space agencies are looking at how we can work together and help understand the climate variables. A certain number of climate variables are possible to be observed from space,” NASA Administrator Charles Frank Bolden said. “We are trying to look at how we can build systems which can enable such observations to be made in a systematic manner,” he added. ISRO chief A S Kiran Kumar and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France’s National Space Studies Centre (CNES) were also present at the event. Le Gall said of the 50 variables of climate change, 26 can be studied only from the space.
“After the success of COP 21 Paris we decided to continue to work with the help of space agencies. We have been working to explain the Heads of State in COP 21 Paris. Out of the 50 essential climate variables, which can describe what is climate and climate change, 26 of them can be observed only from space. “And these are the satellites which show the evidence of global warming and emission of carbon dioxide. Now we are going one step ahead and will monitor the effects of carbon dioxide an green house effect from space,” he said. What we are doing is coordination in order to avoid duplication of work, Le Gall added. Kiran Kumar said the purpose of the symposium is to make the decision makers aware that data is available on climate change and the steps they can take to counter it.

“There is data available. We are not guessing. We are producing more data for decision makers. That’s the job of the (space) three agencies. We are the providers of data. All this time we know about the problem, but we are running out of time. What is critical is open access to data,” Bolden said. “It is important for any nation that is a space-faring nation…And has data and is willing to share that data (on climate change) in an international database,” he added. India is hosting Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium from April 4 to 7.
ALSO READ: Four Indian teams to compete in NASA’s rover challenge

 

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Note: This matter was deleted due to Forum Problem Occurred on 5 April 2016.
First Theme based On-line Outreach Programme conducted at IIRS on Geo-spatial Technologies for Urban Planning

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India has approved city level action plans for improving basic urban infrastructure in 474 cities under Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Transformation (AMRUT) and shortlisted 98 cities for the Smart Cities Mission. Geo-spatial technologies provide timely and accurate spatial data and capabilities to analyze spatial datasets for preparing action plans.

To enhance the awareness on Geo-spatial technologies, a distance learning programme on “Geo-spatial Technologies for Urban Planning” was organised from February 11, 2016 to March 15, 2016 by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), a unit of ISRO. The programme was delivered using Internet technology and "A-View" platform developed by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) and Amrita University. About 5183 participants from 175 Universities / Institutions and government departments across India, registered for the programme. The audience included professionals, researchers and students from Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) / Town and Country Planning Departments (TCPDs), Central / State / Private Universities (including IITs and NITs), Central and State Government Organisations / Departments, Research Institutes, Geo-spatial Industries and NGOs.

The present programme was conducted based on the recommendations of the National Meet on “Effective Utilization of Space Technology in Governance and Development” held on September 7, 2015 at New Delhi, which emphasized mass awareness of space applications in the country. It was a maiden effort at IIRS to conduct theme based online course on Geo-spatial technology and its applications. The IIRS outreach network is now extended to 370 Universities / Institutions where 67 new institutions have joined first time this programme.

The major topics covered during the programme were Geo-spatial fundamentals (Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System, Global Position System, etc.) and their applications in urban context i.e., Smart City and AMRUT Programme of Govt. of India. These contents were delivered by IIRS faculty and eminent speakers namely, Dr. Sudhir Krishna, former Secretary, MoUD, GoI and experts from TCPO, MoUD. The participants showed keen interest in the programme and a good number of queries were raised at the end of each session.

An interactive feedback session was conducted at the end of the programme with the University Coordinators and Course Participants. The programme was highly appreciated by the participants and communicated their keen interest to attend similar programmes in future. IIRS responded by informing that new programmes would be taken up on Geo-spatial application in other disciplines of natural resources management in near future. One of the important highlights of the programme was that ~150 professionals working in ULBs and TCPDs actively participated in the programme.

Story of the Week - Archive
Apr 05, 2016 : Geo-spatial Technology for Expansion of Sericulture in India
Mar 28, 2016 : First Theme based On-line Outreach Programme conducted at IIRS on Geo-spatial Technologies for Urban Planning
Mar 21, 2016 : Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) established at NARL
Mar 15, 2016 : Vicarious CalVal Facility for Calibration of Satellite Sensors
Mar 07, 2016 : A new Brazing process for Semi-Cryo Engine established by ISRO
Feb 29, 2016 : Hot Isostatic Press Facility was inaugurated at VSSC
Feb 26, 2016 : ISRO participates in "Make In India Week"

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ISRO-NASA to jointly launch satellite to study earthquakes

Zee Media Bureau


New Delhi: The Indian space agency ISRO and US space agency NASA will join hands for the first time to launch a satellite that will help study earthquake and its patterns.






The satellite is called NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR and designed to observe and take measurements of some of the earth's most complex processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.

India and US are also collaborating in a major way in the Mars Mission project.

While NASA Administrator Charles Frank Bolden said they are planning to launch the satellite by 2020-21, but ISRO AS Kiran Kumar said they are looking to prepone the launch.

"The US is providing L-Band. It will help us look at crustal deformation. We are looking for hints at earthquake detection. We cannot predict earthquake but we can advise people where it has occurred. We are hoping to launch it by 2020-21," Bolden told reporters here.

To discuss applications of remote sensing technologies for disaster mitigation and bettering global climate change monitoring, the heads and representatives of several space agencies were assembled in the national capital.

The project will not only help in understanding the seismic activity but also give inputs for monitoring agricultural activities in India, says ISRO AS Kiran Kumar.

"The activity involves building a payload with L- and S- bands synthetic aperture radar. It's a new technology instrument. While NASA provides the L-Band component of the electronics plus the antenna, which is a huge one. ISRO will provide the S-Band and the payload will be integrated at NASA and then the payload comes back at Bangalore. It gets integrated on the satellite, which is being built and will be launched by ISRO.

"So, currently the activities are going on in full swing. Both the governments have cleared the basic mission. We are looking at a possible launch with 2021. We are trying to advance the launch and we are working towards it. As far as we are concerned the usage of this got many significant usage for our programme," Kumar said.

"You can measure accurately the variations in surface

topography, accuracy of millimeters. So, it's not earthquake prediction that is possible and making measurements of locations where large deformation are consistent, observation of changes in surface measures which will lead to stress levels being built up at certain locations which could help in understanding the behaviour of understanding earthquake and its phenomena. The objective is to make systematic study in timely manner," Kumar said.

He further said that it will give primary data of surface deformation and the frequency of the measurement is very significantly different from what is available now and thats what is being looked at globally as a new input for enabling a large number of applications to be brought about.

"We are very much excited about it because for the first time two of our agencies are working together on such a big scale," the ISRO chief said, adding that both the space agencies have formed a working group and they would meet periodically.

"They look at the result available from Mars Orbiter Mission and MAVEN. They also look at if there could be some coordinated measurements which could be planned.



"In future, we are also looking at what we could so with NASA in our future MARS missions. We are also looking at opportunities for some of our payloads which can be carried on their (NASA's) programmes. This is a continuous dialouge on how we can take forward our current engagements on Mars programme," Kumar said.