India, Dec. 18 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Indian space programme enables space-based inputs to the nodal Ministries/Departments as well as to Central & State disaster management authorities, for effective disaster management and developing disaster resilience. The National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM, Version 5.0) developed by ISRO is part of the Integrated Control Room for Emergency Response (ICR-ER), of MHA, for emergency response decision support. Satellite data inputs are also used for generation of essential climate variables. Space technology is being used in the agriculture sector for crop production forecasting, crop surveillance, agro-met advisories, crop insurance programme, Krishi-DSS, etc....