Dr. Manu Mehta and Mr. Akhilesh Kumar This recent study at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, presents the first known comprehensive global validation of Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) measurements derived from the Sentinel 2 Sen2Cor algorithm, covering a significant period of 5 years from 2018 to 2022 utilizing an extensive dataset from over 400 AERONET stations (each year) Continue Reading »

Forests, often referred to as the "lungs of the planet," play a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s climate and sequestering carbon dioxide. To understand the effects of climate change and formulate mitigation measures, it is important to know how climate change affects the biogeochemical cycles of forest, especially carbon and water cycles that sustain life on our planet. In Continue Reading »

Since the 1960s the Central Asian lake that used to be known as the Aral Sea has almost completely dried out, due to human activity. This environmental disaster has created a new desert known as the Aralkum (the “Aral Desert”), which now has a size of 255 km × 255 km across that has appeared since 1960 on the seabed Continue Reading »