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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch its own satellite imaging system on its website within six months, according to the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) on Thursday. "We are going to launch our own satellite images on the web within six months from now. Our images are quite good and even better than Google," ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair disclosed here Thursday. He said the law from being imaged has prohibited certain locations with security risks. These locations will not be there, but the remaining places would definitely be on the net," he said.
A new satellite set to launch next month will monitor the rate of sea-level rise and help measure the strength of hurricanes, according to a leading NOAA scientist. The Jason-2/OSTM is scheduled for lift off June 15 at 1:47 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The spacecraft is a joint, international effort between NOAA, NASA, France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat). Jason-2/OSTM will also be used in the prediction of short-term, severe weather events, such as hurricanes and tropical storms. According to Miller, NOAA will use the altimeter measurements to monitor ocean conditions that trigger changes in the strength of tropical cyclones, as they move over the ocean towards the land. The technique involves mapping the ocean heat content — the fuel that feeds a storm’s intensity — along the storm’s predicted track.Using data received in earlier altimeter missions during hurricanes with wind speeds in excess of 155 miles per hour, scientists have been able to reduce intensity prediction error by an average of five percent – and in some cases as much as 20 percent. Increasing the accuracy of intensity predictions, helps save lives.
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Dr.
Hrishikesh Samant
