Junior Research Fellow (JRF) Notification from ISRO,Ahmedabad
Government of India
Department of Space
Indian Space Research Organisation
SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE
Ahmedabad – 380 015
Advertisement No.SAC: 01/2009
Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad is one of the lead Centres of
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space (DOS).
SAC focuses on design of space borne instruments for terrestrial and
planetary missions of ISRO and development and operationalisation of space
technology for national development. The applications cover communication,
broadcasting, navigation, disaster monitoring, meteorology, oceanography,
environment monitoring and natural resources survey. SAC designs and
develops all the transponders for the INSAT and GSAT series of
communication satellites and the optical and microwave sensors for IRS
series of earth observation satellites. Further SAC develops ground transmit
and receive systems and date / image processing systems. SAC has highly
sophisticated payload design and integration laboratories and facilities for
electronic and mechanical fabrication, environmental tests and image
processing and analysis. Campus library of SAC is the finest in western
region. SAC is also actively involved in imparting training to scientists and
engineers from the Asia Pacific region through the nine months PG diploma
programs of the UN-CSSTEAP.
SAC has made pioneering contributions in the field of agriculture, forestry,
coastal zone management, urban planning, snow and glacier studies,
oceanography and atmospheric studies. SAC has developed concept and
techniques for pre-harvest estimation of production of major crops under
multi-agency FASAL project, forecasting of potential fishing zones using OCM
and other satellite data, studies of Himalayan glaciers and snow cover and
monitoring of coastal zones using optical as well as microwave remote
sensing data. Methodology for tracking cyclones in terms of direction and
land falls has been developed and used for recent cyclones like Gonu, Nargis
etc. Algorithms have also been developed to derive ocean parameters like
sea surface temperature, wind speed, wave heights etc as well as
atmospheric parameters such as water vapour, cloud liquid water content etc.
Present thrust areas for applications are towards utilization of data from Indian
satellite missions including INSAT-3D, Oceansat-2, Cartosat series RISAT,
Resourcesat-2, Meghatropiques, etc and the planetary mission like
Chandrayaan-1. A Programme on Climate change Research in Terrestrial
environment (PRACRITI) is initiated to study the impact of climate change on
Agriculture System, Himalayan, Cryosphere, Terrestrial Hydrology over India
and Sensor System Studies for Monitoring of Green House Gases.
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Site for online application will be open from 14.6.2009 to 30.6.2009 from
08:00 hours to 20: 00 hours.