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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Call to involve students in space programme

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The launch of the latest remote sensing satellite, CARTOSAT-1, is a challenge and Indian scientists have proved their capabilities by successfully putting the satellite in the orbit, said D.V.A. Raghava Murthy, Project Director of the CARTOSAT-1 Mission, ISRO, here on Wednesday.

Participating in the inaugural of a workshop on Space Technology Applications organised at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Mr. Murthy noted that the country's space programme had travelled a long distance in the last couple of decades registering a manifold increase in the use of data generated by satellites.

In his address, R.R. Navalgund, Director, National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), called for steps to involve schoolchildren, college students and general public in the excitement of space programme.

The satellites generate plentiful of data which need to be utilised properly, he said.

Challenges ahead

The Director of Dehradun-based Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific, Karl Harmsen, said the real challenge is to reach the benefits of the space programme to the common man. Technology could do a lot for society but it needed to be intelligently used, he remarked.

The JNTU Vice-Chancellor, K. Rajagopal, Centre for Spatial Information Technology, I.V. Muralikrishna and others participated in the inaugural of the two-day workshop organised by Indian Society of Remote Sensing-Hyderabad Chapter, ERDAS India, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History and Centre for Spatial Information Technology, JNTU.

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