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The seafood industry will get a boost with ISRO's indigenously-built Oceansat-2 satellite to be launched in 2009 which will help identify potential fishing zones and forecast weather conditions more accurately.

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A new satellite, OCEANSAT-2, would be launched in 2007-08 to study physical and biological aspects of oceanography.
The OCEANSAT-2 would study the oceans and the wind surface of oceans.

"It is more powerful than the OCEANSAT-1 (launched in May 1999), which was nearing the end of its life cycle" - G Madhavan Nair, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation.

The OCEANSAT-2 would carry an Ocean Colour Monitor and a Ku-band pencil beam "scatterometer", which is an active microwave radar and operates at 13.515 GHz providing a good resolution cell size of 50 kms x 50kms.
It will also carry radio occultation sounder for atmospheric studies, developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

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Oceansat-2 will be ready for launch by the end of the current year. The new satellite will replace Oceansat-1, launched in 1998, for studying physical and biological aspects of the country's ocean resources.
The new satellite will help identification of potential fishing zones, support sea state forecasting, help coastal zone studies and provide inputs for weather forecast.

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