Launching of state of art satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned to launch more number of state-of-the-art satellites to further enhance operational applications and cater to the needs of emerging applications.
The details of the state of the art satellites approved for launch till 2019-20 are:
- Third generation Cartosat series satellite for very high resolution mapping
- Second generation stereo imaging satellite for Digital Elevation Model
- Geostationary Imaging Satellite (GISAT) for Earth observation from Geostationary Orbit
- Third generation Ocean imaging satellite for ocean colour, sea surface temperature mapping and ocean surface wind vector mapping
- Third generation ResourceSat series of satellite with improved spatial resolution and swath
- C-band microwave imaging satellite for all weather and day & night imaging
- Constellation of high resolution imaging satellites for frequent revisit
- Nanosatellite for Aerosol monitoring
- Satellite for monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence and radiation environment
The areas requiring enhancement of operational applications, include monitoring of natural resources, crop acreage estimation & production forecasting, monitoring of surface water spread, potential fishing zone forecasting, near-real time monitoring of disasters, high resolution digital elevation model of the country, infrastructure planning & monitoring, and so on.
This information was provided by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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