Jonathan Hung, Executive Director at the Office for Space Technology and Industry (OSTIn), Singapore, during the interaction in Bengaluru on Monday. AS Kiran Kumar, Former Isro Chairman, and Edgar Pang, Consul General, Consulate-General of Singapore, also seen.
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Bengaluru: Former ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar on Monday said space usage should not be restricted to being merely beneficial for humanity.
He was speaking at a roundtable organised by Synergia on 'Leveraging Satellite Data for National Security'.
"The space infrastructure is changing not only for providing information to be used on the ground, but also enabling the capability to be in space for a whole lot of other activities," Kumar said.
Much of the existing data can be repurposed if utilised effectively beyond its original intent. Data availability is more or less assured from one source or another, he added.
Jonathan Hung, Executive Director at the Office for Space Technology and Industry (OSTIn), Singapore, highlighted how raw data can be processed to address real-world problems.
"Getting processed data is not as simple as it sounds. But, if processed correctly, its usefulness is very wide: from climate change to disease monitoring to disaster response to smart agriculture to food security, to name a few," Hung said.