ISRO to get an exclusive ground station in Hyderabad

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

 

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will have an exclusive ground station in Hyderabad to collect and relay remote sensing data from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to customers all over the world.

This is  to manage the huge amount of remote sensing data relayed to ground stations as India plans to launch at least 30 such earth observation satellites .This series of satellites will include Resourcesat, Cartosat and ocean and atmospheric satellites.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will have an exclusive ground station in Hyderabad to collect and relay remote sensing data from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to customers all over the world.

This is expected to come in handy to manage the huge amount of remote sensing data relayed to ground stations as India plans to launch at least 30 such earth observation satellites within the next 10 years, V Jayaraman, director, Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), told participants at a meeting on Karnataka State Geospatial Database here on Tuesday.

This series of satellites will include Resourcesat, Cartosat and ocean and atmospheric satellites.

 

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Montenegro town’s dream: from toxic dump to eco-tourism hub

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Once reputed as the most polluted spot in Montenegro, the remote northern town of Mojkovac is trying to shake off the stigma, clean up and promote itself as a new Balkans eco-tourism hub.

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Detecting Noise Pollution in the Sea

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

The Applied Bioacoustics Laboratory (LAB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has developed the first system equipped with hydrophones able to record sounds on the seafloor in real time over the Internet. The system detects the presence of cetaceans and makes it possible to analyze how noise caused by human activity can affect the natural habitat of these animals and the natural balance of oceans. A new EU directive on the sea has ruled that all member states must comply with a set of indicators for measuring marine noise pollution before 2012.

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New botanic database holds a million plant names

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Capping the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity, botanists in Britain and the United States on Wednesday unveiled a library of plant names aimed at helping conservationists, drug designers and agriculture researchers.

The database, accessible at www.theplantlist.org, identifies 1.25 million names for plants, ranging from essential food crops such as wheat, rice and corn to garden roses and exotic jungle ferns, and provides links to published research.

The aim is to clear up a century-old taxonomic jumble in which non-standard names sowed ignorance, rivalry and sometimes damaging confusion about the world’s plant wea

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