{"id":82196,"date":"2012-11-02T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/india-takes-over-nasas-defunct-satellite-to-track-sandy\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T17:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:28:30","slug":"india-takes-over-nasas-defunct-satellite-to-track-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/india-takes-over-nasas-defunct-satellite-to-track-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"India Takes Over NASA\u2019s Defunct Satellite to Track Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASA, ISRO, Weather Satellite, Hurricane, NOAA<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/01\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/M_Id_328051_Caltech.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Ocean surface winds for Hurricane Sandy observed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Oct. 28 by the OSCAT radar scatterometer on the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) OceanSat-2 satellite. <\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: ISRO\/NASA\/JPL-Caltech\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> and weather and climate scientists all over the world have been receiving help from India\u2019s Space Applications Center (SAC) to track Hurricane Sandy. The <strong>Indian Space Research Organization<\/strong>\u2019s OSCAT radar scatterometer, which travels on board its OceanSat-2 satellite, has been sending valuable image data at near-real time to NASA and <strong>NOAA<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>OSCAT, designed and developed at SAC, Ahmedabad, is similar to the now defunct QuikSCAT satellite from NASA. Since QuikSCAT ceased operations in 2009, engineers and scientists from NOAA, JPL and NASA have worked with ISRO to validate and calibrate OSCAT measurements to ensure seamless coverage of ocean vector winds, critical for the global climate weather forecasting field. <\/p>\n<p>ISRO\u2019s OceanSat-2, together with NASA\u2019s Cloudsat satellite and Aqua and Terra spacecraft, played a critical role in helping track Superstorm Sandy. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASA, ISRO, Weather Satellite, Hurricane, NOAA Publication Date: 11\/01\/2012 Ocean surface winds for Hurricane Sandy observed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Oct. 28 by the OSCAT radar scatterometer on the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) OceanSat-2 satellite. Image credit: ISRO\/NASA\/JPL-Caltech NASA and weather and climate scientists all over the world have been receiving help from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}