Geomaticians

Oceansat-3 To Be Launched On Nov 26: Jitendra Singh

India will launch the Oceansat-3 satellite on November 26, Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Singh said the Ministry of Earth Sciences has taken the notion of ‘marine surveillance’ to a new level, where space applications are also being deployed to share the valuable inputs with the security agencies, an official statement said. Singh made the remarks at the first ever joint society meeting of autonomous institutes of the Earth Sciences Ministry, namely Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS), National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT).