Indian Satellite Remote Sensing Programme : NRSC Perspective

1. Vinay K DadhwalDirectorNational Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO)Plenary: Dimensions & Directions of Geospatial TechnologyIndia Geospatial Forum; February 7-9, 2012, Gurgaon Indian Satellite Remote Sensing Programme : NRSC Perspective

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

3. 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

4. Resourcesat-2 • 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 SSR : 200 Gb for 12 min. recording of payload of LISS-4 or LISS-3 + AWIFS Capability : Steerable with ± 26 deg. across track Payload can be operated in every orbit for duration of 16 min.

5. EO Missions - Near Future RISAT-1 For applications in Disasters, Agriculture, soil moisture etc. Multiple acquisition capability from a Geosynchronous Orbit GISAT Payloads C 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 • 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 in first quarter of 2012 • Status • Launch by PSLV during 2013 INSAT - 3D SARAL For improved understanding of weather systems Satellite with ARgos and ALtika - Joint ISRO-CNES Mission • Payloads • 19 channel Sounder • 6 Channel Imager • Payloads • Ka-band Altimeter (~35.5GHz) • Dual freq Radiometer (23.8/36.8 GHz • Status • Launch by end 2012 • Status • Launch by PSLV in Second quarter of 2012

6. 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 Balanagar Shadnagar Bangalore ; Jodhpur ; Kolkotta ; Nagpur

7. 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)

8. Data & Products Dissemination Services • 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 time • Delivery with less than 150 minutes from the time data is recorded on onboard

9. National EO Applications Projects • Land Use/Land Cover using AWiFS (1:250,000) • Seven cycles completed 2010-11 ; 8th cycle (11-12) in progress • Land Use/Land Cover using LISS III (1:50,000) • First cycle (05-06): completed & Atlas Released ; Second cycle (11-12) initiated • Land 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, 2013 • Space based Information Support for Decentralised Planning (SIS-DP) usingCarto-1+LISS-IV (1:10,000) • Ortho products being generated • 9000 Cartosat stereo-pairs processed; • Satellite data for planning to panchayats Many New Applications with Resourcesat-2 Forest change alert system using AWiFS Initiated in association with FSI & Maharashtra State Forest Department

10. Geospatial Web Services under ISRO/DOS NRDB- Natural Resource- http://www.nnrms.gov.in BHUVAN- Gateway to Indian Earth Observation- http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in BHOOSAMAPADA-LULC - http://applications.nrsc.gov.in MOSDAC- 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.in IBIN- Bio-resource Information - http://www.ibin.co.in BIS- Biodiversity Information - http://www.bisindia.org India WRIS- Water Resources - http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in Additional web –enabled systems for - Indian Forest Fire Response and Assessment System - Wasteland Information System - Wetland Information System - Urban Information System …Next Challenge – Data Discovery & Gateway : Unified Data Geoportal

11. Bhuvan - Gateway to Indian EO Data Products & Services Prototype Visualisation Data Archive Thematic Services Geo-Processing What is Unique in Bhuvan? • Availability of Seamless High Resolution Data • Multi-Sensor, Temporal, Resolution Data from IRS Satellites • Rich Thematic Information • Weather Data from ISRO AWS • Ocean Services • Collaboration / Sharing / Community Participation • OGC Web Services • Online Shape file Creation • Terrain Profile • Urban Design Tools • 3D Fly Through • Multi-Lingual (English | Hindi | Tamil | Telugu | Gujarati | Marati | Kannada --) • Data Download (CartoDEM, AWiFS , LISS III Ortho) Website of the Month – Dec’2010

12. NRSC Open EO Data Archive http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in • 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’ • 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 This facility will be extended for other IRS satellite data coarser than 24m in near future.

13. Thematic Services “OGC Web Services (WMS, WMTS) towards interoperability” 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’. • Released on 17 Dec 2011 • Total Hits : 1,79, 273 • Unique Visitors : 1444 • Land Use Land Cover • Flood (Annual and Hazard Layer) • Land Degradation (till 08 Jan’12) http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/theme

14. BHOOSAMPADA- LULC Information Portal http://applications.nrsc.gov.in:15001/ • 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.

15. 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….

16. Thank You http://www.nrsc.gov.in