[Satellite Today 07-07-08] The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) signed a distribution agreement for data collected by an Indo-French weather satellite scheduled for launch in 2009, the agencies announced July 7.
The Megha Topiques satellite will carry four payloads – a microwave radiometer, a humidity sounder, a radiation measuring instrument and a radio occultation sounder for atmospheric studies. The distribution policy enables the global scientific community to have free access to Megha Tropiques data after calibration and evaluation of the payloads by scientists from both the agencies for weather and climate change studies.
This data is expected to enhance a better understanding of the tropical weather phenomena including the monsoons.
ISRO, CNES Sign Megha Tropiques Data Distribution Policy
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