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Isro and Cnes are pleased to jointly announce an opportunity to carry out scientific research with Saral/AltiKa data. Download the documents to submit a proposal.

Isro and Cnes are pleased to jointly announce an opportunity to carry out scientific research with Saral/AltiKa data. Saral launch is scheduled in September, 2010. This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is open to global scientific community for submitting research proposals towards utilization of AltiKa payload data in the following broad categories: Cal/Val activities, reprocessing activities, scientific applications studies, operational applications studies, assimilation of AltiKa data in numerical models, synergistic studies using multi-sensor approaches. It should be noted that this AO does not fund the 'projects', but only ensures that the selected Principal Investigators (PIs) are provided with relevant, limited data sets at no cost. Please take time to go through it and submit a proposal to Cnes or Isro for use of the Saral/AltiKa data, before February 15^th, 2010. Notices of intent are not mandatory but will be welcome.

Further information:

• Download the <link fileadmin documents news mod_actus isro_cnes_saral_altika-ao.pdf pdf download>Joint Announcement of Opportunity (pdf) and its <link fileadmin documents news mod_actus isro_cnes_saral_altika-ao-annexures.doc doc download>Annexure (doc) to submit a proposal (in English).
• Missions: <link internal-link>Saral