Scientist Tapan Misra Friday took over as director of the Indian space agency’s application centre at Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
Misra,
deputy director of microwave remote sensing area at the same centre,
succeeded A.S. Kiran Kumar, who was made chairman of the state-run
Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on January 14 in Bengaluru.
An
engineering graduate from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Misra was the
lead designer for the development of C-band synthetic aperture radar of
the country’s radar imaging satellite-1 (Risat-1).
“Under
Misra’s leadership, critical technology elements for Risat were
developed in partnership with the industry,” the space agency said in a
statement.
Misra
contributed to the system design, simulation, integration and ground
calibration of multi-frequency scanning microwave radiometer instrument,
which is onboard the country’s Oceansat-1 satellite.
“Misra
was associated with the development of a special airborne radar system
for disaster management during 2005-2006 Scatterometer payload of
Oceansat-2, launched in 2009 for providing wind data to global
meteorological community,” the statement recalled.
Misra
also led a team to develop futuristic remote sensing systems, including
advanced radars, millimetre wave sounders and an advanced
Scatterometer.
Beginning
his career at the applications centre as a digital hardware engineer
for developing quick look display system of x-band side looking airborne
radar in 1984, Misra went on to design and develop C-band airborne
synthetic aperture radar.
“Misra
developed an important algorithm for real-time processing of synthetic
aperture radar data when he was a guest scientist in the German
Aerospace Agency in 1990,” the statement added.
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