MoU for Cooperation on Satellite Based Naval Applications
Recently a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Space Application Center (SAC) and the Indian Navy.
The agreement is on data sharing and cooperation on satellite based naval applications in oceanography and meteorology.
Salient Features of the MoU:
- Scientific advances by the Space Applications Center will be aligned with the efforts of the Indian Navy to ensure the nation’s defense along with rapid development in the field of satellite data retrieval and applications.
- Under this, non-confidential observational data will be shared.
- Includes provision of subject experts (SMEs) for processing satellite data for use in military operations and development of new equipment, calibration and validation of ocean models for use of meteorological information generated from the Space Applications Center (SAC).
- It also includes providing calibration and validation of ocean models.
Space Applications Center:
- The ‘Space Applications Centre’ is a major R&D center of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
- It is located in Ahmedabad and conducts multidisciplinary activities.
- The core competence of the center lies in the development of space-borne and air-borne instruments/payloads and their applications for national development and social benefit.
- These applications are being carried out in diverse fields and mainly cater to the communication, navigation and remote sensing needs of the country.
Achievements of Space Applications Center:
- The center also made important contributions to ISRO’s scientific and planetary missions like Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission etc.
- Communication transponders developed in the Center for Indian National Satellite (INSAT) and Geosynchronous Satellite (GSAT) series of satellites are used by the government and private sector for VSAT, DTH, Internet, broadcasting, telephone etc.
Source – The Hindu
