The Hindu : Exhibition on remote sensing opened

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Friday, Jun 20, 2003

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Exhibition on remote sensing opened

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE June 19. Till July 20, the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) will have `An eye in the sky'.

This is the title of a Rs. 5.5-lakh exhibition on the uses and role of remote sensing that opened at the VITM on Wednesday.

The display has scaled down working models of various Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites, information panels on the principles of remote sensing, interactive exhibits, and panels on disaster management system used during floods, earthquakes, and forest fires.

For example, one panel shows the 1819 rupture of the Kutch region that created the Allah Bund fault.

A movement of this fault in 2001 caused a massive earthquake there. The panel shows that in 2010, more movement on the fault is likely.

Another panel shows contrasting IRS images of the Kumbh Mela site when it was empty (on April 21, 2000) and when a mass of humanity descended there (on January 15, 2001).

V.Jayaraman, Director of Earth Observation Systems at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), inaugurated the exhibition.

The VITM curator, K.G.Kumar, told presspersons at a preview (of the exhibition) that the show would travel to the other centres under VITM's parent body, the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM).

`An eye in the sky' had been designed and exhibited first at VITM's satellite centre, the Regional Science Centre, Tirupati. "We had a lot of support from the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) in Hyderabad and the ISRO in creating the exhibition," Mr. Kumar said.

The VITM has six galleries, two temporary exhibits, and a dinosaur corner now. Next year, it will add an `Electronics gallery' with funds from the Bharat Electronics Ltd.

"BEL is giving us Rs. 1.5 crore," the curator said. Such sponsorships had increased of late. For instance, the museum's `Biotechnology gallery' had companies such as Biocon willing to give money, he said.

In September, the VITM would host a National Science Drama Festival for schools, Mr. Kumar said.

The fest was meant to "dramatise science", and had been held for the past three years.

"One team, for example, came up with the idea of having a house on Mars," he said. There was a similar national scriptwriting contest for teachers too, he added.

The VITM is open all days of the week. To know more about the new exhibition, call 2864009.

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