ISRO and French space agency review collaborative projects - Agree deal on tropical weather data

By Subhankar Kundu @ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:30 AM

Section - Telecoms/Applications

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have discussed the status and progress of their ongoing collaborative programmes.

The ISRO chairman, Dr G Madhavan and the president of CNES, Dr Yannick d`Escatha, chaired the meeting, held in Goa.

The meeting witnessed an agreement between ISRO and CNES on the policy for distribution of data received from the on-going Indo-French collaborative satellite project, Megha Tropiques. Megha Topiques is due for launch in 2009.

The agreement will allow the global scientific community free access to Megha Tropiques data after calibration and evaluation of the payloads by scientists from both the agencies for weather and climate change studies. The data is expected to improve understanding of tropical weather phenomena, including monsoons. The satellite project is aimed at tropical weather monitoring, and a status report on it was presented at the meeting.

The space organisations also reviewed the status of the small satellite mission, SARAL. CNES carries payloads for SARAL for the study of ocean parameters, improving understanding of ocean conditions. X

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