New Delhi, Dec 8 (Agency) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the images of Cyclone Mandous, which was heading towards North Tamil Nadu and cross the coast between Puducherry and India’s spaceport of Sriharikota by midnight of tomorrow. The Cyclonic Storm was expected to intensify into severe Cyclonic Storm before it will lose steam and weaken into a Cyclonic storm at the time of crossing the coast. ISRO said the images were captured by Earth Observation Satellite EOS-06 which was launched by PSLV-C54 along with eight Nano-satellites into two different SSPOs on November 26 this year.
The image combines the cloud structure provided by Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) with wind vector data derived from the Scatterometer. ISRO tweeted “EOS-06 images Cyclone Mandous. This image combines the cloud structure provided by Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) with wind vector data derived from the Scatterometer. “OCM also identified algae (coccolithophore) blooming off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean”, it said. EOS-06 is third generation satellite in the Oceansat series, which provides continued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability. The satellite onboard carried four important payloads viz. Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3), ARGOS. The Oceansat-2, which was a launched in September 2009 configured to cover global oceans and provide continuity of ocean colour data with global wind vector and characterization of lower atmosphere and ionosphere.
The mission resulted in many research collaborations nationally and internationally on various areas global chlorophyll distribution, Kd 490 distribution, ocean color images, oil spillages, wind vector products. The EOS-06 is envisaged to observe ocean color data, sea surface temperature and wind vector data to use in Oceanography, climatic and meteorological applications. The satellite also supports value added products such as potential fishing zone using chlorophyll, SST and wind speed and land based geophysical parameters.