Lecture 12

Data Products from Indian Satellite

Overview

ISRO has a vibrant Indian Remote Sensing program since 1988 with a gamut of Indian Remote Sensing Missions (IRS) observing Earth with Optical, microwave and hyper-spectral instruments flown on-board to provide necessary data in various spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions to cater to different user requirements in the country and for global usage.NRSC is the nodal centre for hosting Satellite Data Products from more than 13 IRS satellites right from the first IRS optical mission namely IRS-1A and SAR imaging missions. Satellites are primarily tasked to cover India and surroundings in a programmatic manner or on-demand as required by user as per mission capability. NRSC also acquires and archives data of global regions for disasters, calibrations and specific studies. Near real time data products from IRS weather sensors is delivered for climate and weather models for a global coverage. Georeferenced, Orthokit, Orthorectified products are provided in standard formats like Geotiff, HDF. Customized value added products are generated based on the requirements from the user for large AOI.NRSC Data archive is extensively utilized for Land use land cover monitoring, Ocean studies, weather applications and scientific research. The Government agencies, industries and academia is highly benefiting by the valuable huge data products archive and technology to meet their respective end objectives.

Optical High Resolution 2.5m and better

Sno	Satellite	Sensor	Resolution	Data available from
1	Cartosat-2 Series	Pan	0.65 m	01-Aug-2016
2	Cartosat-2 Series	MX	1.6 m	01-Aug-2016
3	CARTOSAT-2B	PAN	1 m	13-Jul-2010
4	CARTOSAT-2A	PAN	1 m	29-Apr-2008
5	CARTOSAT-2	PAN	1 m	14-Apr-2007
6	CARTOSAT-1	PAN-F	2.5 m	08-May-2005
7	CARTOSAT-1	PAN-A	2.5 m	08-May-2005
8	CARTOSAT-1	Stereo	2.5 m	08-May-2005
9	CARTOSAT-1	Widemono	2.5 m	27-May-2005

RS2A AWIFS, Gujarat

Microwave

Sno	Satellite	Sensor	Resolution	Data available from
1	RISAT-1	MRS, C-band	24 m	01-Jul-2012 to 17-Mar-2017
2	RISAT-1	CRS, C-band	48 m	01-Jul-2012 to 27-Feb-2017
3	RISAT-1	FRS-1, C-band	3 m	01-Jul-2012 to 13-Mar-2017
4	RISAT-1	FRS-2, C-band	9 m	01-Jul-2012 to 18-Sep-2016
5	RISAT-2	SPOT , X-band STRIPMAP,X-band SCANSAR, X-band	1-8 m	02-Jan-2009
6	OSCAT	Ku-band	50 km 25 km	09-Feb-2010 to 01-Mar-2014
7	SCATSAT-1	Ku band Scatterometer	50 km 25 km	26-May-2017
8	SARAL	ka-band radar altimeter		01-Nov-2014

Ahmedabad

Gangotri

Hyperspectral

Sno	Satellite	Sensor	Resolution	Data availability from
1	IMS-1	VNIR	500m	02-Jan-2009

RS2A LISS3, Mumbai

Remote Sensing Data Policy (RSDP)

For operating a remote sensing satellite from India, license and/or permission of the Government, through the nodal agency, will be necessary. As a national commitment and as a “public good”, Government assures a continuous/improving observing/imaging capability from its own Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) programme. The Government of India, through the nodal agency, will be the sole and exclusive owner of all data collected/received from IRS. All users will be provided with only a license to use the said data and add value to the satellite data. Government reserves right to impose control over imaging tasks and distribution of data from IRS or any other Indian remote sensing satellite when it is of the opinion that national security and/or international obligations and/or foreign policies of the Government so require. For acquisition/distribution of remote sensing data within India, license/permission from the Government of India, through the nodal agency, will be necessary. Government reserves the right to select and permit agencies to acquire/distribute satellite remote sensing data in India. DOS shall be competent to decide about the procedure for granting license/permission for dissemination of such data and for the levy of necessary fees.

To cater to the developmental needs of the country, the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)/DOS is vested with the authority to acquire and disseminate all satellite remote sensing data in India, both from Indian and foreign satellites.

Data Dissemination Portals

·        User Ordering Processing Service (UOPS)

·        Bhuvan-Geoportal

·        Scientific Application for Global Archive data(SAGAR)

·        Meteorological & Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre (MOSDAC)

·        Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC)

Users

Satellite data is disseminated to various users viz. Central Ministries/Departments, State Ministries / departments, ISRO DOS Projects, Academia and Industry .

• Central Departments /  Ministries 
• Several ministries / departments e.g. Rural Development RGNDWM, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Department of Science & Technologies,  Central Water Commission (CWC) / MoWRD-GR, Gas Authority of India Limited  (GAIL)
• Projects undertaken are e.g. Ground Water Prospects Mapping, Agricultural Drought Monitoring, India Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS), National Hydrology Project (NHP);
• State Departments /  Ministries 
• All State  Remote Sensing Applications Centres, Departments of State Water Resources, Agriculture, Forest, Urban and Rural development
• ISRO / DOS Projects
• Natural Resources Census (NRC), Space based Information System for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DP),,National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM), Bhuvan Geoportal.
• Academia and Industry