The Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) system has emerged as one of the most high-profile programs in the commercial imaging industry. The focus of the IRS program is to develop space technologies and applications in support of national development.
The Government of India Department of Space (DOS) began the IRS program in 1998 with the launch of IRS 1A followed by a series of satellites; 1B, 1C, 1D, P2, P3 and more recently RESOURCESAT-1 (P6). Data from these satellites have helped in areas such as Integrated Mission for Sustainable Development (IMSD), National Level Crop Acreage and Production Estimation (CAPE), wasteland inventory, landslides, zoning and forest inventory mapping.
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