Science And Technology

ISRO to build powerful communication satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies, its Chairman, Dr K.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Space Technology, Communication, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Environment
Science And Technology

ISRO to build more powerful satellites

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said here today

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Astronomy, India, Remote Sensing, Bangalore (D), Climate Change
Agriculture

ICAR plans to adopt GPS tech for appropriate farming techniques

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is working on a scheme to increase agricultural productivity by providing exact information to farmers on the type of crops they should grow, fertiliser

Publication Date: 
29/08/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Agriculture, Space Technology, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Ghaziabad (D), Uttar Pradesh, Meerut (D), Crops, Agricultural Research
Wildlife

Pacific Walruses Studied as Sea Ice Melts

USGS Alaska Science Center researchers, in cooperation with the Native Village of Point Lay, will attempt to attach 35 satellite radio-tags to walruses on the northwestern Alaska coast in August as

Publication Date: 
26/08/2011
Environment News Network
Tags:
Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Marine Life, Alaska, Glacial Melt, Russia, Wildlife, Marine Ecosystems
Climate Change

Tracking the Movement of Ice Across Antarctica

A new map of Antarctica illustrates for the first time how ice moves across the continent.

Publication Date: 
23/08/2011
Sindya N. Bhanoo
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Antarctica, Global Warming, Climate Change, NASA, Remote Sensing, Space Technology
Wildlife

Decline of suitable habitats and conservation of the endangered lion-tailed macaque: land-cover change at a proposed protected area in Sirsi–Honnavara, Western Ghats, India

Habitat fragmentation, loss of habitat and other anthropogenic activities have caused a population decline in many species, caused restriction in their distribution or even led to their local extinction. We attempted to understand the impact of such pressures on the newly identified and possibly the largest population of the endangered lion-tailed macaque, Macaca silenus in the Reserve Forests of Sirsi and Honnavara, Karnataka, using a temporal series of satellite images.

 
Publication Date: 
10/08/2011
Current Science
101
3
434-439
Tags:
Endangered Species, Monkey, Karnataka, Remote Sensing, Western Ghats, Deforestation, Uttar Kannad, Wildlife And People
Solid Waste

Jayalalithaa announces mass cleaning programme in Chennai, suburbs

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, announced a mass cleaning programme in Chennai and its suburbs.

Publication Date: 
09/08/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Chennai (D), Remote Sensing, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Sewage, Waste Recycling, Urban Development

Monitoring Sikkim Himalayan Cryosphere

Monitoring Sikkim Himalayan Cryosphere -International Symposium  - Benefiting from Earth Observation  4-6 October, 2010 Kathmandu, Nepal. 

Publication Date: 
09/08/2011
Smriti Basnett, A.V. Kulkarni, B.P.Rathore
International S0ymposium - Benefiting from Earth Observation
Tags:
Sikkim, Himalaya, North East, Climate Change, Climate Science, Remote Sensing, Rainfall, Monsoons
Natural Disasters

Japan Tsunami current flows observed by HF radars on two continents

Quantitative real-time observations of a tsunami have been limited to deep-water, pressure-sensor observations of changes in the sea surface elevation and observations of sea level fluctuations at the coast, which are essentially point measurements. Constrained by these data, models have been used for predictions and warning of the arrival of a tsunami, but to date no detailed verification of flow patterns nor area measurements have been possible. Here we present unique HF-radar area observations of the tsunami signal seen in current velocities as the wave train approaches the coast.

Publication Date: 
03/08/2011
Belinda Lipa, Donald Barrick, Sei-Ichi Saitoh & et al
Remote Sensing
3
1663-1679
Tags:
Tsunami, Remote Sensing, Japan, California
Climate Change

US plan turns forests into carbon sink

Enacted in 1993, before climate change was so prominent in the public media eye, the US Northwest Forest Plan's primary goal was the conservation of old growth forests on public land, and thereby a

Publication Date: 
02/08/2011
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
United States Of America (US), Climate Change, Forests, Carbon Sinks, Endangered Species, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Remote Sensing, Forest Fires, Carbon Capture and Storage

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