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Distress Alert Transmitter
January 24 , 2024
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- ISRO has developed an improvised Distress Alert Transmitter (DAT).
- It has advanced capabilities and features for the fishermen at sea to send emergency messages from fishing boats.
- The first version of DAT has been operational since 2010.
- By using this message were sent through a communication satellite and received at a central control station (INMCC: Indian Mission Control Centre).
- Here the alert signals are decoded for the identity and location of the fishing boat.
- Using this information, the MRCC coordinates to undertake search and rescue operations to save the fishermen in distress.
- Till now, more than 20,000 DATs are being used.
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