GlobalSat for DRR is a global satellite for earth observation and disaster risk reduction, which is proposed under the UN framework and it will be dedicated to APJ Abdul Kalam as a tribute to the vision of the celebrated rocket scientist and former Indian President who died recently on July 27.
Launch of this satellite was dicussed at the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which was held at Sendai in Japan. This news was announced by Milind Pimprikar who is the Chairman of CANEUS (CANada-EUrope-US-ASia) Organization on Space Technologies for Societal Applications headquartered in Montreal (Canada). CANEUS was founded in 1999 and serves to develop a common platform for space technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster management. Milind Pimprikar also stated that this project GlobalSat for DRR is a UN-driven global initiative on sharing space technology for disaster risk reduction.
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GlobalSat was proposed essentially in response to the need for a globally interconnected disaster and environmental management system, since no single country can afford to develop a complete set of sensors and satellite systems needed for forecasting and monitoring disasters like floods, drought, typhoons, earthquakes, wild fires, windstorms, or tidal events, as said by Pimprikar.
Pimprikar also said that the goals of UN GlobatSat are the same as those of Kalam. In World Space Vision-2050, Kalam dreamt of space faring nations joining hands to find solutions to mankind's major problems such as natural disasters, energy and water scarcity, health-care education issues and weather prediction. Therefore we now plan to dedicate the UN GlobalSat initiative as a tribute to Late Dr. Abdul Kalam by renaming it as 'UN Kalam GlobalSat'.
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Bio: I am a computer science engineer who believes that there is no substitute to hard work, I am a technology freak and currently a Blogger at Techies Net.
