CMFRI to focus on satellite data

Kochi | Monday | 16th October, 2017

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more-inThe Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) will use satellite data to improve the fortunes of the Indian marine fisheries sector. Eminent scientists working on global ocean satellite data, technocrats, oceanographers and marine experts from across the world will converge at the symposium to prepare a roadmap to utilise satellite data for the development of the marine fisheries in India. According to a press release, CMFRI will host the second international symposium of SAFARI here on January 15 and 17, 2018. The symposium ‘Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Analysis and Fisheries’ will find ways and means to apply the remote sensing techniques in areas such as aquaculture, harvest fisheries, fisheries management, fishery environment and ecology, fresh water, estuarine and marine fisheries and socio-economics. Participants and contributors are requested to submit their applications and abstracts online at the website www.safari2.org.in on or before October 31..