On last Friday, the scientist Tapan Misra was honoured as the director of the ISRO’s space applications centre at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Tapan Misra who is the deputy director of microwave remote sensing area at the ISRO’s space applications centre has thrived AS Kiran Kumar. On January 14th of this year, Tapan Misra became as the chairman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru. And then now, he is the director of the same centre which was announced on 20th February.
When comes to his education, Misra had his graduation in engineering from Jadavpur University in the city, Kolkata. Parallel to his career, he was one of the best lead designers for the progression of C-band synthetic aperture radar of the country’s radar imaging satellite-1, which is famed as Risat-1 as that became his full-time job.
In an official statement, the space agency gave the words as, “Under Misra’s leadership, critical technology elements for Risat were developed in partnership with the industry.” Tapan Misra added to the system design, simulation, integration and the ground calibration of the multi-frequency scanning microwave radiometer instrument as that is aboard the country’s Oceansat-1 satellite.
“Misra was associated with the development of a special airborne radar system for disaster management during 2005-2006 Scatterometer payload of Oceansat-2, launched in 2009 for providing wind data to global meteorological community,” the statement regained about Misra. He also had a group to improve innovative remote sensing systems, along with the advanced radars, millimetre wave sounders and an advanced Scatterometer.
In the initial stage of his career, at the applications centre he worked as a digital hardware engineer for improving the immediate look display system of x-band side looking airborne radar in 1984, he proceeded on to intend and expand the C-band airborne synthetic aperture radar along with his earlier development.
They added the statement about Tapan Misra as, “Misra developed an important algorithm for real-time processing of synthetic aperture radar data when he was a guest scientist in the German Aerospace Agency in 1990.”