NISAR mission awareness workshop held

Chennai, March 29 -- The Space Applications Centre (SAC)-ISRO in Association with In-SPACe and NSIL organized a one-Day NISAR Awareness Workshop on Saturday.

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a collaborative mission of SAC, ISRO and NASA and JPL, is a sweep SAR based dual-frequency SAR mission comprising L-band SAR developed by JPL-NASA and S-band SAR developed by SAC-ISRO and is scheduled for launch in mid-2025 from ISRO SDSC-SHAR.

NISAR will provide high resolution and wide swath imaging of global landmass including polar cryosphere and coastal oceans, supporting applications in multiple disciplines.

Aligning with the New Space Policy of India which encourages Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) to engage in various do...