Isro Says SCATSAT-1 Satellite Data Will Be Used through Nasa

The facts generated by way of India's SCATSAT-1 weather satellite put into orbit on Monday could be used by international space companies including Nasa and European Space Agency (ESA), Isro stated on Tuesday.

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), the SCATSAT-1 venture is a worldwide one and not just for domestic use.

"SCATSAT-1 is a global project and information generated from the Scatterometer, developed by Isro will also be utilised through the American space agency Nasa and ESA enterprise, EUMETSAT to provide international climate facts to all those worried in climate studies and global weather trade studies," Isro said.


The 371kg SCATSAT-1 is the continuity assignment for Scatterometer payload carried through the sooner Oceansat-2 satellite.

Global wind records, which is very important for cyclone detection and weather forecasting programs, was collected through Scatterometer tool flown as one of the payloads in OCEANSAT- 2 satellite tv for pc.

This information changed into utilised by way of countrywide and global users and proved to be a completely important tool for oceanographic research.

Typhoon Kabayan (Philippines), hurricane Irene and Sandy (US) were additionally captured by Oscat payload in OCEANSAT-2.

According to Isro, the value and route of the wind vector at the ocean floor is a key parameter for weather prediction as well as detection and monitoring of cyclones.

The objectives of the SCATSAT-1 is to facilitate the climate forecasting services to the consumer communities via the era of wind vector merchandise.

The Ku-band Scatterometer payload carried by using SCATSAT-1 has more desirable functions compared to the similar one carried by Oceansat-2 launched in 2009.

The Scatterometer payload instrument is a essential tool globally used to study wind patterns above the ocean, air-sea interactions, ocean flow and their typical outcomes on climate styles.

"Climate fine statistics is anticipated to be acquired from this spacecraft to offer correct know-how concerning Himalayan ice formation and melting, cyclones formation close to Indian coastal line, Greenland ice melting, and so on," Isro stated.

Scatterometer operates on the principle of radar. When the radar radiates electricity pulses toward the ocean's floor, a backscatter effect is produced because of interplay between electromagnetic waves and sea surface waves, that's characteristic of pace and direction of floor winds over the oceans.

This procedure of receiving again-scattered signal is achieved whilst conically scanning or rotating the antenna in conjunction with the movement of the satellite giving a swath of one,400 km.

The amassed information is processed onboard to generate estimate of backscattered strength/indicators and stored on a information recorder.

This recorded facts is then transmitted to ground station that's transformed into wind vectors for the worldwide consumer.

These wind vectors will help meteorologists in as it should be expect the cyclone formation, its movement and predicted landfall.

It may be recalled that Ocean wind vectors statistics helped in appropriately predicting cyclone 'Phailin' in the Odisha coast in 2013, which helped in mitigation and saving of mankind and farm animals.