It has been informed by the ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair that now fisherman can be explained the exact part of the sea where they should go to get heavy amount of fish.

Madhavan Nair informed, “The ISRO has developed a methodology to locate fish schools by reading sea surface temperature and analysing the ocean colour through satellite remote sensing.”

An endowment lecture in the name of the late Prof. C. Karunakaran, the founder of the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), a leading science institution of the State government was being delivered by him.

He also informed that there has been greater public awareness now since India’s space programme had been discussed so exhaustively in the media in the wake of the success of the moon mission Chandrayaan-I.

“The moon mission taken up under the space programme had taken only three per cent of ISRO’s budget for the last four years. Nearly 85 per cent of the budget was spent solely on applications that directly impacted the lives of the common man,” said Mr. Nair.

Several applications now available for helping in economic planning, healthcare services, education, nature conservation and weather and disaster forecast were also discussed by him.