NRSC at Hyderabad has been converted into a full-fledged centres of ISRO since
September 1, 2008. Earlier, NRSC was an autonomous body called National Remote
Sensing Agency (NRSA) under Department of Space (DOS). The Centre is
responsible for remote sensing satellite data acquisition and processing, data
dissemination, aerial remote sensing and decision support for disaster
management.
NRSC has set up data reception station at Shadnagar near Hyderabad
for acquiring data from Indian remote sensing satellites as well as others. The
Centre is also engaged in executing remote sensing application projects in
collaboration with the users.
Currently NRSC is supplying data from CartoSat - 1, 2, 2A & 2B, ResourceSat - 1 & 2,
OceanSat, TES, IRS - 1D and IMS - 1 to the users. The users are ever growing
and utilized about 67,000 data products during 2010-11 in comparison with that of 50,000 during 2009-10.
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Dept. of Space, Govt. Of India |
Balanagar |
Hyderabad - 500 037 |
Andhra Pradesh |
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Director: Dr. V. K. Dadhwal |
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