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Under Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Programme, so far seven satellites have been launched to provide land, water, agricultural and Oceanographic information for resources monitoring and management under National Natural Resources Management System. The continuity of the data services is planned by way of providing improved multi-spectral data, panchromatic data, and oceanographic/atmospheric data, in the future also. The various errors in the satellite data namely radiometric and geometric errors which are to be corrected on ground before the data is put for use have been explained. The characteristics of the future satellites are also described in this article.
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Kalyanaraman, S. Remote sensing data from IRS satellites — past, present and the future. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 27, 59–69 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02990802
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02990802