Vinay K DadhwalDirector

National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO)

Plenary: Dimensions & Directions of Geospatial TechnologyIndia Geospatial Forum; February 7-9, 2012, Gurgaon

Indian Satellite Remote Sensing Indian Satellite Remote Sensing Programme : NRSC PerspectiveProgramme : NRSC Perspective

OutlineOutline

• Indian EO Satellites : Recent & Future• NRSC Activity Profile• EO Data Acquisition & Archives • Data & Products Dissemination• RS Applications Programme• Visualization & Geospatial Services

Indian EO Satellites : Recent & Future

• Launches in 2011– Resourcesat-2, Meghatropiques, Youthsat

• Operational/In-service EO Satellites– Oceansat-2– Cartosat-1, 2; IMS-1; Resourcesat-1

• Near future EO Satellites– (Polar) : RISAT-1, SARAL– (Geostationary) : INSAT-3D, GISAT

SSR : 200 Gb for 12 min. recording of payload of LISS-4 or LISS-3 + AWIFSCapability : Steerable with ± 26 deg. across track Payload can be operated in every orbit for duration of 16 min.

•3 Cameras (AWiFS, LISS 3, LISS 4)•Repetitivity: 5 days (AWiFS) to 24 days (LISS 3) & Revisit : 5 days (LISS 4)

•Spatial resolution of 5.8 m (LISS 4) – 56 m (AWiFS)

•Swath of 23 km (LISS 4) to 740 km (AWiFS)•AIS Payload (Communication/ ship identification)

Launch: 20 April 2011

Data products Improved radiometric quality Ortho-Rectification using CartoDEM Improved Geo-location accuracy Automatic LISS-4 MX Registration

Resourcesat-2

SARAL

RISAT-1

PayloadsC band SAR 5.35 GHz frequency; 5

imaging modes single, dual & quad polarisation modes 18.3 to 48.6o look angle; 20.1-54.5o orbit incidence

For applications in Disasters, Agriculture, soil moisture etc.

Status• Launch by PSLV in first

quarter of 2012

Payloads• Ka-band Altimeter (~35.5GHz)• Dual freq Radiometer (23.8/36.8 GHz

Satellite with ARgos and ALtika - Joint ISRO-CNES Mission

Status• Launch by PSLV in Second

quarter of 2012

INSAT - 3D For improved understanding of weather systems

Payloads• 19 channel Sounder• 6 Channel Imager

Status• Launch by end 2012

GISAT Multiple acquisition capability from a Geosynchronous Orbit

Payloads•High resolution multi-spectral VNIR (HRMX-VNIR): 50m Res.•Hyper spectral VNIR & SWIR: 320m and 192m Res.•High resolution Multi-spectral (HRMX-TIR): 1.5km Res.

Status• Launch by PSLV during 2013

EO Missions - Near Future

NRSC Activity Profile• SATELLITE DATA ACQUISITION & ARCHIVAL• DATA PRODUCTS - PROCESSING, DISSEMINATION• AERIAL DATA ACQUISITION, PROCESSING

– LFDC & ALTM

• RS & GIS APPLICATIONS– Nationwide EO Applications

• Disaster Management Support – DSC & NDEM

• REGIONAL CENTRES– Applications & User Projects

BalanagarShadnagar

Bangalore ; Jodhpur ; Kolkotta ; Nagpur

EO Data Acquisition & Archives• Ground Station at Shadnagar for Indian Region• Global: IGS, OBSSR-Playback, Svalbard (Norway)• Establish GS at Antartica : Global, Near real-time• ARCHIVE (.ca 1000 Terra Bytes since 1979), All IRS

– Foreign : Landsat, ERS, SPOT, NOAA, MODIS– Top Archives : IRS P5 (235 TB); RESOURCESAT-1 (168 TB);

IRS 1C(140 TB); IRS 1D (140 TB); CARTOSAT 2 (100 TB)

• RSDP 2011 policy implemented• No restriction of data products up to 1 m

• For FY 2010-11 products supplied 67,002 against targeted sales of 60,000

• Web based free data delivery (enabled AWIFS & CartoDEM• Emergency Data delivery - 899 products - under NRT mode for

Emergency applications• Dissemination of Scatterometer products to EUMETSAT in near

real timeDelivery with less than 150 minutes from the time data is

recorded on onboard

Data & Products Dissemination ServicesData & Products Dissemination Services

Land Use/Land Cover using AWiFS (1:250,000)• Seven cycles completed 2010-11 ; 8th cycle (11-12) in progressLand Use/Land Cover using LISS III (1:50,000)• First cycle (05-06): completed & Atlas Released ; Second cycle (11-12) initiatedLand Degradation using LISS III (1:50,000)• Mapping completed; Enhanced with NBSS & LUP data; Atlas in preparation Geomorphology & Lineament using LISS III (1:50,000) with GSI• 450 maps completed; 600 maps planned by March, 2012• 1500 maps planned by March, 2013Space based Information Support for Decentralised Planning (SIS-

DP) using Carto-1+LISS-IV (1:10,000)• Ortho products being generated• 9000 Cartosat stereo-pairs processed; • Satellite data for planning to panchayats

National EO Applications ProjectsNational EO Applications Projects

Many New Applications with Resourcesat-2Forest change alert system using AWiFS Initiated in association with FSI & Maharashtra State Forest Department

Geospatial Web Services under ISRO/DOSGeospatial Web Services under ISRO/DOS

NRDB- Natural Resource - http://www.nnrms.gov.inBHUVAN- Gateway to Indian Earth Observation - http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.inBHOOSAMAPADA-LULC - http://applications.nrsc.gov.inMOSDAC- Met & Ocean Data - http://www.mosdac.gov.in SCORPIO – Cyclone Observation and Prediction – http://122.252.237.243/scorpio/DSC-Disaster Decision Support - http://dsc.nrsc.gov.inIBIN- Bio-resource Information - http://www.ibin.co.inBIS- Biodiversity Information - http://www.bisindia.orgIndia WRIS- Water Resources - http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in

…Next Challenge – Data Discovery & Gateway : Unified Data Geoportal

Additional web –enabled systems for- Indian Forest Fire Response and Assessment System- Wasteland Information System- Wetland Information System- Urban Information System

Online Shape file CreationTerrain ProfileUrban Design Tools3D Fly ThroughMulti-Lingual (English | Hindi | Tamil |

Telugu | Gujarati | Marati | Kannada --)Data Download (CartoDEM, AWiFS , LISS III

Ortho)

What is Unique in Bhuvan?

Bhuvan - Gateway to Indian EO Bhuvan - Gateway to Indian EO Data Products & ServicesData Products & Services

Visualisation Data Archive Thematic Services Geo-Processing

Prototype

Website of the Month – Dec’2010

Availability of Seamless High Resolution Data

Multi-Sensor, Temporal, Resolution Data from IRS Satellites

Rich Thematic Information Weather Data from ISRO AWSOcean ServicesCollaboration / Sharing / Community

ParticipationOGC Web Services

NRSC Open EO Data NRSC Open EO Data ArchiveArchive

A new initiative to facilitate the users to select, browse and download IRS satellite data products. Cartosat-1:DEM: 1 arc Sec

Resourcesat-1:AWiFS Ortho (2008,2009):56m

Resourcesat-1:LISS III Ortho (2008-09):24m

Metadata NSDI 2.0

Select Area based on ‘Bounding box, Mapsheet(SOI), Tiles, Interactive Drawing’

This facility will be extended for other IRS satellite data coarser than 24m in near future.

http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in

Data Downloads (thousand) CartoDEM – 6 AWiFS Ortho – 2

LISS III Ortho – 5 Total – 13 (till 05 Feb’12)

Released on 29 Sep 2011

Released on 02 Jan 2012

Thematic Thematic ServicesServices

Bhuvan-Thematic Services facilitate the users to select, browse and query the Thematic Datasets from this portal. Users can also consume these Thematic Datasets and integrate into their systems as ‘OGC Web Services’.

http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/theme

Land Use Land Cover

Flood (Annual and Hazard Layer)

Land Degradation

“OGC Web Services (WMS, WMTS) towards interoperability”

Released on 17 Dec 2011

Total Hits : 1,79, 273 Unique Visitors : 1444 (till 08 Jan’12)

• BHOOSAMPADA : interactive GIS environment in internet domain for LULC data visualization, querying and analysis.

• Temporal data on LULC-250K (7 Annual Cycles starting from 2004-05), Water bodies and Snow cover available with dynamic linkage of socioeconomic data.

• LULC-50K (2005-06)

• BHOOSAMPADA is developed using open source and COTS GIS solutions.

http://applications.nrsc.gov.in:15001/

BHOOSAMPADA- LULC Information BHOOSAMPADA- LULC Information Portal Portal

Future Geospatial Activities Future Geospatial Activities

• National HR data sets for decentralised planning support (SiSDP) - Society Outreach

• Geophysical Products including Climate Quality (ECV)• Model derived Land Surface Process Outputs• Unified ISRO Data Geoportal• Improved / Expanded Bhuvan• Mashups (many web services, incl WRIS)• Linking with mobile/PDA for data collection,

applications, disaster-related information support….

Thank YouThank You

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