Ashish Suraj

Frontend stuffs for work, lame jokes as an escape

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@_svs_ Don’t you think it’s majorly because of the misinformation being circled over the internet? Small businessmen are still protected and the big ones are already accepting payments via card/ upi on cc are paying MDR.
FYI: Before 2020 MDR on UPI was. ~0.6%

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@corevats As if I was able to get her number 🙂‍↔️

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@vishalzone @Trendulkar @MarchTee You’ll, after the first wash.

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@blrcitytraffic So we are paying one the highest road tax in the country to access the shittiest road of the city?

[JayPrashanth @JayPrashanth]

Here we go again.

Last week, ARAI said the reports on effects of ethanol can't be revealed.

Today, we have BNCAP telling @theyawninchihua that body structure stability (modifier data) of tested cars can't be revealed.

Isn't it ridiculous that the car buyer won't know if a BNCAP crash-tested car's body structure is stable or not, notwithstanding the 5 star rating.

In contrast, GNCAP, Euro NCAP etc, happily put out whether a tested car's body structure is stable (whether it's capable of further loading) or not.

Cases in point: Maruti Victoris and Dzire. Both rated stable by GNCAP but BNCAP doesn't specify!

If ENCAP and GNCAP can do it, why can't BNCAP?

You must also follow suit @bncapofficial. Shouldn't you be revealing more, rather than less?

@CarToq

https://t.co/3eURrFOTC3

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@volklub Any reason to exclude Duster from the list?

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@JayPrashanth You are the only one who is actively highlighting the issue.I hope your posts and you don’t disappear like it happened few years ago when people raised their voice.Spreading awareness among common people on ground can only do the trick.@nitin_gadkari to sabko anti national bol de

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.

GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.

Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.

The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.

The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.

Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.

GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.

Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.

For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.

GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.

Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.

Take a bow!

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@Susmit_Lavania @huddle01com @ranjan3118 LFG

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@harikrishnan_91 Naan of us are taking it seriously

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@lubnamalhotra Something similar happened to me in 2021, police just filed a FIR and nothing has been done till now.

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@Khyatigupta369 You can start with Hunter 350

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@the_growing_up @BangaloreRoomi @fmrbangalore Flat khaali kar de main le loonga :P

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

Almost broke it.

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

Can squat 120kg x 5 but can’t deadlift 100kg x 2. Man I need to grow some spine.

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@gokulns Once wrote Send me the kink instead of link.

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@pinksaltedcakes And tax evasion :3

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@pinksaltedcakes My GOAT has no crimes outside football field

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@the_growing_up @vivekraju93 They can create one for themselves

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@vivekraju93 It’s ThAI

[Ashish Suraj @ashishsuraj17]

@ButVai Who called it dahej and not bribe to be?