​Hyderabad: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to open an outreach centre, a geospatial hub on the lines of T-hub to facilitate research and encourage young talent. The outreach centre is coming up in Jeedimetla which can house 100 researchers and entrepreneurs at a time.

Speaking to The Hans India, ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said, “All the archival data of ISRO would be made available at one location which could prove a boon to researchers.

The idea is to encourage people with innovative ideas to work on the data and come up with solutions to problems.” Kiran Kumar was in the city to deliver the A V Rama Rao Technology Award lecture at CSIR-IICT on Friday.

Researchers would be able to use the satellite data to come up with solutions to problems pertaining to water supply, sewerage, urban transport and other urban issues.

A senior scientist of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) said the geospatial hub would be of great use for the successful implementation of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) cities as satellite data is useful for decision making.

The ISRO is planning to develop the outreach centre as a geospatial and space hub in Hyderabad as even NRSC is located in the city.

The outreach centre will facilitate Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping apart from state-of-the-art innovation for young researchers.

The hub will also throw open its doors to geospatial industry. Hyderabad has quite a few companies but the centre will accept applications from across the country.

The centre is looking to become a primary centre for discovery and delivery of accessible geospatial data.

Geospatial technology is being increasingly used for urban planning and the outreach centre would become a focal point for solutions, according to a senior scientist.