City Desk :
A seminar was organized on Monday at Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO) to inform the results of two research activities in the financial year 2020-2021.
Defence Secretary Golam Md Hashibul Alam was present as the chief guest at the seminar and Zafar Ullah Khan, Chairman of SPARRSO presided over the seminar.
Two research activities named Investigation on the Applicability of Microwave and Optical Satellite Images for Assessment of Rice Crop Area at Early Stage of Crop Life Cycle and Remote Sensing Based Water Quality Assessment for Inland Fisheries were presented by Dr. Md. Abdus Salam, Chief Scientific Officer and Mohammad Imrul Islam, senior Scientific Officer.
Dr. Md. Abdus Salam mentions that for the last two decades, SPARRSO has been regularly using satellite remote sensing data to determine the cultivable area of Boro and Aman paddy and provide this information before harvesting.
The research is being conducted in response to requests from stakeholders and policy makers to provide more information. Research has shown that the lead time for providing information can be further enhanced, which will play a helpful role in food security planning in Bangladesh.
In research of Remote Sensing Based Water Quality Assessment for Inland Fisheries. Imrul Islam expressed that this study uses data from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 satellites to detect chlorophyll (Chl-a) and suspended particulate matter (SPM) in some waterbodies at Gazipur district in Bangladesh.
This study shows that the Sentinel-2 satellite sensor is more effective for detecting chlorophyll (Chl-a) whereas the Landsat-8 satellite sensor is more effective for detecting suspended particulate matter (SPM).
Different national organizations officials attended the seminar and took part in the discussion focusing on current and future research of SPARRSO.
Defence Secretary Mr. Golam Md Hashibul Alam emphasized on coordination among the institutions under the Ministry of Defence in the use of space research and remote sensing technology for the development of the country and the nation.
He requested SPARRSO to conduct research based on the needs of the stakeholders and to contribute to the socio-economic development of the people. Zafar Ullah Khan, Chairman of SPARRSO, mentioned the encouraging results of the two studies presented and sought the cooperation of all concerned people and organizations in these two large-scale studies.
