'Need to take up research for devpt of futuristic sensors'

There is a need to take up focussed research for the design and development of futuristic sensors to be used in aerospace and defence sectors, according to G Satheesh Reddy, scientific adviser to the Defence Minister.
"There is a tremendous transformation taking place in the areas of sensor technologies and the world is moving towards highly miniaturised wireless and wearable sensors," Reddy said here after inaugurating a Technical Meet and Aerospace Luminary Lecture.
The event has been organised by the Aeronautical Society of India in collaboration with Sensors Research Society of India.
Reddy, who is the present Chairman of Aeronautical Society of India said, "We need to take up focussed research for the design and development of futuristic sensors for our diversified aerospace and defence projects."

"Futuristic defence and aerospace systems and sub-systems will need cutting edge sensor technologies and we need to meet the huge requirements and also should produce the same in numbers to export them in a big way," a release quoting Reddy said.
Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO, Ahmedabad, director Tapan Misra, who delivered the first lecture on space sensors said "in the quest to connect the benefit of space based observations to the advantage of common man, SAC has conceived and launched a spectrum of Optical and Microwave payloads."

Misra said SAC has built specific air borne electro-optical sensors to meet the exclusive requirements of high resolution and hyper-spectral imaging from aerial platform as well.

"In order to meet ever increasing observational need for host of applications, various missions are planned in future. One such initiative is NISAR (NASA and ISRO joint venture) for developing future sensors in L&S Band for earth observation applications like ecosystem structure, land surface deformation, cryosphere, coastal studies and oceanography and disaster response and so on," he said.
"SAC is taking the lead in C-band radar based imaging and is also taking a big leap in both optical and microwave sensor capability in order to meet futuristic challenges," he added.
Nearly 500 eminent scientists, engineers, industrialists and professionals from the aerospace sector participated, the release added.