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NISAR will map the earth every 12 days, the way of monitoring the earth will change
NISAR: As part of a partnership between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the US space agency NASA, the NISAR satellite was put into orbit on Wednesday with a successful flight of the GSLV rocket. This satellite will map the Earth every 12 days using a 240-km-wide radar field. Data will be available to monitor everything, including landslide areas.
On Wednesday, the NISAR satellite was put into orbit as part of a partnership between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the US space agency NASA, with a successful flight of the GSLV rocket.
This satellite will chart the earth every 12 days with a 240-km-wide field of radar, offering information to scientists and disaster relief officials to track everything from the melting of Himalayan glaciers to landslide-prone regions in South America.
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite has been jointly developed by the two space agencies. Although ISRO has put into orbit earth observation satellites like RESOURCESAT and RISAT earlier, the information garnered from those satellites was confined to the Indian subcontinent.
