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Hyderabad, India (PTI) Jan 26, 2007 Calling for a national policy to use remote sensing to help agriculture sector, former ISRO Chairman K Kasturirangan said space technology can be used to improve land productivity. There is an alarming situation in agriculture production. But space technologies can be used to improve land productivity, he said while inaugurating a national symposium on Application of Space Technologies for Agricultural Development here. Later talking to reporters, he said a national policy is needed to use remote sensing for agriculture and disaster management. "ISRO has very well developed prototypes and the capabilities have been demonstrated but it is now for the concerned ministries to integrate them and put them to use," Kasturirangan, who is also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, said. "This is not the job of ISRO but concerned ministries which can pick up threads of these prototypes and put them to use," he opined. There are several dimensions for the use of space technologies and we are looking at facilitators of agriculture like land, water, seeds etc, he said. Currently, ISRO in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture has made a facility to predict harvest of 14 crops using space technology. Centres have been established in state and district levels with the facility, Forecasting Agriculture Production through Space Agro Meteorology and Land (FASAL). More crops are now being considered to be brought under FASAL, Kasturirangan added. Source: Press Trust of India Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Making money out of watching earth from space today The latest farming technology and science news Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
GeoEye Next-Generation Earth Imaging Satellite Reaches Major Milestone
Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 24, 2007GeoEye has announced the delivery of the camera for its next-generation commercial imaging satellite to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Gilbert, Arizona for integration into the satellite. When operational, GeoEye-1 will be the world's highest resolution commercial imaging satellite. |
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