Upcoming project –> Indo – US (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite.
Earth observation satellite –> slated to be launched in 2020-21
NISAR would provide info about a place more frequently. For Ex. If the present satellite take 23 to 25 days to revisit a particular spot and give the next round of info about it, NISAR would provide the repeat info in two to five days.
Objectives:
- Estimation of soil moisture
- Agriculture and forest biomass
- Estimation of glacier
- Snow and possibility of landslide