Application of Advanced Technology in Space Activities

The major achievements of using the IRS and INSAT satellite systems for socio-economic development of India are:

• Satellite based Tele-education programme to spread education at all levels in the country.
• Satellite based Tele-Medicine programme to provide health care for remote/rural areas.
• Setting up of Village Resource Centres to provide space based services to the rural community.
• Satellite based services for Broadcasting, Business Communications, Data Communications, Remote area Communications, Emergency Communications and Mobile Communications.
• Satellite based meteorological data for improved weather services.
• Natural Resource management applications – Waste land mapping, locating sources of drinking water, forecasting agricultural output, advisories of potential fishing zones, Forestry Management, Bio-diversity characterization of bio rich areas of the country, snow melt run off estimations, land and water resource development.

The Indian Launch Vehicle & Satellite technologies are state-of-the-art and are on par with the technologies of the developed countries.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Shri Prithviraj Chavan, in a written reply to a question by Shri G. Karunakara Reddy in the Lok Sabha today.

Source: The Economic Times
Date: April 30, 2008