Indian Navy, ISRO ink MOU for cooperation on satellite-based applications in oceanology and meteorology
New Delhi. The Indian Navy on August 5 signed a MoU with the Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad on data sharing and cooperation on satellite-based naval applications in oceanology and meteorology.
With this initiative, both the organisations will have a common platform of mutual cooperation, wherein the scientific advancements by SAC would be synergised into the Indian Navy’s efforts to keep the nation’s defence in step with rapid development in the field of satellite data retrieval and applications. This MoU is an extension of a previous MoU signed in 2017 and will further the collaboration between two organisations.
The broad area of cooperation includes sharing of non-confidential observational data, operation exploitation of SAC-generated weather products and provisioning of subject matter experts (SMEs) for processing of satellite data towards development of new tools, calibration and validation of ocean models.
