Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO is making rural students to expose for data received from remote-sensing satellites and considering it as a beg asset for technical world.
Encouraging students and exposing them for latest technologies is ensured in the coming days of future.
ISRO Chairman, A.S. Kirankumar said that they had already exposed students to a few small experiments and would like to further involve them on a large scale in the coming days.
He inaugurated an exhibition on Moon Mission at School Chandan in Laxmeshwar in Gadag district, 52 km from Hubballi.
After the function, he spoke regarding this and told, “We receive abundant data pertaining to various themes such as soil, water bodies and watershed development. We would like to collect samples of water bodies through students, especially those from rural areas, test them [the samples] in our laboratories and validate the data that we already have”.
He also added, “We already have a crowdsourcing application available on our website [ISRO’s geoportal bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in] which was put to use during a few recent natural calamities”.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kirankumar, Secretary, Department of Space joined the function and examined the working model of the ‘Moon Mission’ that is developed by rural students under the guidance of an ISRO scientist. They considered this as a great thing by the students from a place of no internet.
He then spoke about the future plans of ISRO that it is planning to launch six to seven satellites using its launch vehicles within a year.
The mentioned topic included Astrosat, the nation’s first dedicated astronomy satellite, and three UK satellites on a commercial basis.
He also said that rescheduled navigation satellite IRNSS-1D will be launched on 28th March of this year.
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, fourth in the considered 7 satellites was put off due to a technical problem on 4th March.
ISRO men are trying hard to stabilize the nature of using satellite data and making it available for common man.