We have strong collaboration with France in Space domain: Krishnamurthy

Hyderabad, Jan 6: National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), a wing of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Director YVN Krishnamurthy has said that India has strong collaboration with France in Space domain.

Speaking at the ongoing 15th edition of Krishnakriti Art and Culture exhibition being held at State Art Gallery, Kavvuri Hills here on Friday night, Mr Krishnamurthy said that he have an opportunity to go through few of the maps especially cosmic maps, in all the worships in India, starting with Jambudvipa. 
He said that they had a fantastic collection here and what are the maps with depicts tells us about the past, how we are and how we were prosperous and how things change from today.
He said he come from the space domain and we see what is present today and also for last 30 years. We have information from the space which make the difference and what we are showing is here is centuries back and they need to relate how phosphorous we are and what are the changes happen and where they can put through.
Speaking collaboration with France, (Ambassador of France to India Alexander Ziegler inaugurated a vibrant exhibition “Space, Time and Place: The Culture of Indian Maps’ from the exclusive collection of Kalakriti Archives and Go-Places (Hyderabad) Mr Krishnamurthy said “We have a strong collaboration with the France. We have satellites called Mega Tropics (mega= cloud, tropics=tropical region).This is the unique satellite in the world that which gives the profile of the clouds and humidity and used by all global community and also
Saral-AltiKa. It perform altimate weather forecasting. We also launched satellites from French called “Spot”, the best imaging in the world and we do use for best imaging. In 2018 we are going to have Argo ,which gives the information about the oceans from 1.5 km down the ocean and altimate weather forecasting. Such collaboration that we have “, he said.
Mr Krishnamurthi said that this exhibition was eye opening, especially the pilgrimage routes which has been mapped. the perception of the people how they depicted in maps was a great knowledge. UNI