Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Navy to provide training services and support to the School of Naval Oceanology and Meteorology (SNOM) for conduct of various courses related to operational oceanography.
INCOIS director T. Srinivasa Kumar and Directorate of Naval Oceanology and Meteorology, Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy), Commodore A.A. Abhyankar signed the agreement or the services to be provided through the state-of-the-art International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOO) here.
ITCOO, the training arm of INCOIS, was setup in 2013 and was recognised as one of the Regional Training Centres by the Ocean Teacher Global Academy of International Oceanographic Data Exchange to promote capacity development and optimisation of scientific base, technology and information system for operational oceanography.
