AHMEDABAD: Scientists from NASA and ISRO would be part of a special outreach programme organized at Gujarat Science City on Monday where the experts would talk about a joint mission Nasa and Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) along with satellites for disaster response, India-US space collaboration, climate change observations in Greenland and imaging other planets with radar.

Narottam Sahoo, senior scientist, Science City , said that the Gujarat Science City and Gujarat Council on Science & Technology (GUJCOST) have been coordinating with NASA and ISRO officials for the event. "We are excited that two of the leading space agencies of the world are coming to Science City for interaction with science and engineering students. We are hopeful that it would provide the participants a peek into how the agencies work and can explore collaboration opportunities," he said.

Scientists including Paul Rosen, Alok Chatterjee, Ian Joughin, Mark Simons, Scott Hensley , Paul Siqueira and Piyush Agram from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) along with ISRO scientists would interact with students and scientists from 2 pm to 5 pm on Monday .

What is NISAR

NISAR, a joint Indo-US mission, is optimized for studying hazards and global environmental change using advanced radar imaging that will provide an unprecedented, detailed view of Earth. The satellite is designed to observe and take measurements of the planet's most complex processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides. Scheduled to be launched in 2020 the mission will also monitor the country's agricultural biomass, snow and glacier studies in the Himalayas.

