About KIAS KIOSK

KIAS Initiative on Simplified Knowledge (KIOSK)

This initiative is all about making the aspirants to understand the issue in-

depth, about ongoing events. This will help the aspirants in overall

understanding on various topics for exam.

NOTE

It takes time to understand the basics of certain issues for those who are

preparing for civil service examination. It kills the precious time of the civil

service aspirants. Hence KIAS has taken up the initiative to deliver the

basics for the aspirants through the new initiative

“NO ANALYSIS – ONLY BASICS”.

IN NEWS

India successfully played host to a round of the F1H2O World Championship on River Krishna in Amaravati , marking the country’s return to the international powerboat racing calendar.

F1H2O CHAMPIONSHIP

The Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship (also F1) is an international motorboat racing competition for powerboats organised by the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) and promoted by H2O Racing, hence it often being referred to as F1H2O. It is the highest class of inshore powerboat racing in the world, and as such, with it sharing the title of F1, is similar to Formula One car racing. Each race lasts approximately 45 minutes following a circuit marked out in a selected stretch of water, usually a lake, river, dock, or sheltered bay.

Inshore Powerboat Racing

Inshore powerboat racing is a form of water-based motorsport using powerboats in sheltered or inland stretches of water, including lakes, rivers, docks and sheltered bays. It is often referred to as circuit powerboat racing because of the frequency of inshore races to use the format of a circuit loop, around which boats race for a number of pre-determined laps.

Formula One : Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing.

F1H2O World Championship

IN-NEWS

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its workhouse rocket PSLV-C43

carrying India's earth observation satellite HysIS and 30 other satellites, including 23 from the

United States, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING

Hyper spectral imaging, or imaging spectroscopy, combines the power of digital imaging and

spectroscopy. The study of light interaction with materials is called spectroscopy. Spectroscopy

examines how light behaves in the target and recognizes materials based on their different

spectral signatures. These spectral signatures can be identified from the spectrum of the

material. Spectrum describes the amount of light in different wavelengths. It shows how much

light is emitted, reflected or transmitted from the target. To put in short, the spectrum tells how

much of certain color this light contains.

WHY HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING?

Hyper spectral imaging uses an imaging spectrometer to collect spectral information. This

measures thousands or hundreds of thousands of spectra, instead of single spectrum. Hyper

spectral images obviously provide much more detailed information about the scene than a

normal color camera, which only acquires three different spectral channels corresponding to the

visual primary colors red, green and blue. Hence, hyperspectral imaging leads to a vastly

improved ability to classify the objects in the scene based on their spectral properties. The goal

of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with

the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detecting processes.

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING