Chennai, Dec 8 (UNI) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
released the images of Cyclone Mandous, which was heading towards
North Tamil Nadu and cross the coast between Puducherry and India's
spaceport of Sriharikota by midnight of tomorrow.
The Cyclonic Storm was expected to intensify into severe Cyclonic Storm
before it will lose steam and weaken into a Cyclonic storm at the time of
crossing the coast.
ISRO said the images were captured by Earth Observation Satellite EOS-06
which was launched by PSLV-C54 along with eight Nano-satellites into two
different SSPOs on November 26 this year.
The image combines the cloud structure provided by Ocean Colour
Monitor (OCM) with wind vector data derived from the Scatterometer.
ISRO tweeted "EOS-06 images Cyclone Mandous. This image combines
the cloud structure provided by Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) with wind
vector data derived from the Scatterometer.
"OCM also identified algae (coccolithophore) blooming off the coast of
Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean", it said.
EOS-06 is third generation satellite in the Oceansat series, which provides
continued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability.
The satellite onboard carried four important payloads viz. Ocean Color
Monitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-Band
Scatterometer (SCAT-3), ARGOS.
The Oceansat-2, which was a launched in September 2009 configured
to cover global oceans and provide continuity of ocean colour data with
global wind vector and characterization of lower atmosphere and
ionosphere.
The mission resulted in many research collaborations nationally and
internationally on various areas global chlorophyll distribution, Kd 490
distribution, ocean color images, oil spillages, wind vector products.
The EOS-06 is envisaged to observe ocean color data, sea surface
temperature and wind vector data to use in Oceanography, climatic
and meteorological applications. The satellite also supports value
added products such as potential fishing zone using chlorophyll,
SST and wind speed and land based geophysical parameters.
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