Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 6 (PTI) With ocean scientists reporting a nine mm rise in sea levels in four years, India will launch an exclusive satellite later this year to study the changes in the environment.
The SARAL-Altika satellite will complement the current observations of the sea made by current satellites like Jason-2 of the French Space Agency and NASA.
"The SARAL-Altika to be launched by this year end will have a high-resolution altimeter in the Ka-band," Marc Pircher, Director of the Centre National d?Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency said on the sidelines of the 97th Indian Science Congress here.
He said the satellite would be useful in studying the sea state, light rainfall climatalogy, mean sea level and coastal altimetry.
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