Manouchehr Manteghi, chairman of Iran national space and advanced transportation administration, is appointed as the secretary of the specialized working group of remote sensing in the space higher council.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, during the meeting for introducing the structure and programs of the secretary of the space higher council, the heads of the specialized committees were appointed, including Manouchehr Manteghi, chairman of Iran national space and advanced transportation administration, who was selected as the secretary of the specialized working group of remote sensing in the space higher council.

Remote sensing is a very widespread knowledge. In fact, remote sensing is the acquisition of information from the surface of the earth and sea levels using images taken upwards, using parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are spun or reflected from the surface of the earth. Remote sensing uses electromagnetic energy. The strongest source of this energy is the sun, which emits electromagnetic energy at all wavelengths.

In this meeting, Mohammad Masoud Tajrisihi was appointed as the head of the “specialized working group of crisis management using space technologies” while Amir Hossein Davaei and Nasrollah Jahangard were appointed as the head of the “specialized working group of strategic studies” and “specialized working group of satellite communications and services”, respectively.